The Gates of Hell : : An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union.
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Place / Publishing House: | Ashland : : Faithlife Corporation,, 2022. ©2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (374 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Prayer for Martyrs
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: A World in Flux: War, Revolution, and Reformation
- Chapter 2: "The Church Is Separated from the State": The Bolsheviks Take Power
- Chapter 3: "Any Proof of Brotherly Love": Finding a Way to Aid Russia
- Chapter 4: A Powerful, Invisible Hand from the Dark: The Malevolent Might of the Cheka
- Chapter 5: The "Religious NEP": The Departure of the ARA and the NLC's Struggle to Continue
- Chapter 6: A Fir Tree with Two Peaks: The First All-Russian Lutheran Synodical Convention
- Chapter 7: Servants in His Vineyard: A Bible School Is Born in the USSR
- Chapter 8: "Hold Fast What You Have": The Status of the Lutheran Church in 1926
- Chapter 9: "Unbelievable Elasticity": Managing Relations with Church and State in 1927
- Chapter 10: "They Would Not See His Face Again": A Last Synod and Mission Festival
- Chapter 11: "A Declaration of a Relentless Struggle": The Battle against Religion Is Joined
- Chapter 12: "He … Shall Think to Change the Times and the Law": Stalin's First Five-Year Plan Gets Underway
- Chapter 13: "Faithful to Him to the Grave": Inspiring a New Generation of Believers
- Chapter 14: A Somber Christmas: Arrests and Interrogations
- Chapter 15: The Church Is Broken: The Koch Trial and the Decision in the Hansen-Muss Case
- Chapter 16: Sheep among Wolves: The Servant of the Church as Enemy of the State
- Chapter 17: "Stand and Eat, You Still Have a Long Way to Go": Words and Prayers of Encouragement
- Chapter 18: "Stuck Deep in Snow and Ice": The Spiritual Life of the Church in Late 1931 and Early 1932
- Chapter 19: A Sad and Muddled Affair: Conflicts in the Church as OGPU Pressure Intensifies.
- Chapter 20: "Harvest of Sorrow": Seminary Struggles, Famine, and the Recognition of the Soviet Union
- Chapter 21: "A Martyr to the Cause": The Tragedy of the Meiers
- Chapter 22: "A Small Crowd Armed with Courage": More Arrests and the Closing of the Seminary in 1934
- Chapter 23: The Pulse of the Church Grows Weaker: The Kirov Terror and the Most Difficult Year since 1929
- Chapter 24: They Could Do No Other: The Closing of Jesus Christ Lutheran Church
- Chapter 25: "Fellow Citizens with the Saints": The Death of John Morehead and Departure of Arthur Malmgren
- Chapter 26: "Thousands of Seeds … Cast to the Wind": Shadows of the Great Terror
- Chapter 27: The NKVD Big Lie: Linking the Russian Lutheran Church to Hitler
- Chapter 28: "Blessed Are They that Suffer Persecution for Justice's Sake": The Great Terror and the Destruction of the Lutheran Pastorate in the USSR
- Chapter 29: Heroes of Faith in the Gulag: Re-Arrests and Deaths in the Camps
- Chapter 30: Last Christmas in Leningrad: Erasing Three Centuries of Lutheran Presence
- Chapter 31: Under the Watchful Eye of the NKVD: Being German Proves Fatal
- Epilogue: The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail against the Church
- Acknowledgments
- Photo Gallery
- Bibliography
- Archives and Libraries Used
- Subject Index.