North American Churches and the Cold War

Paul B. Mojzes

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781467450263
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: History of Christianity

History textbooks typically list 1945–1990 as the Cold War years, but it is clear that tensions from that period are still influencing world politics today. While much attention is given to political and social responses to those first nuclear threats, none has been given to the reactions of Christian churches.  North American Churches and the Cold War  offers the first systematic reflection on the diverse responses of Canadian and American churches to potential nuclear disaster.

A mix of scholars and church leaders, the contributors analyze the anxieties, dilemmas, and hopes that Christian churches felt as World War II gave way to the nuclear age. As they faced either nuclear annihilation or peaceful reconciliation, Christians were forced to take stands on such issues as war, communism, and their relationship to Christians in Eastern Europe. As we continue to navigate the nuclear era, this book provides insight into Chris-tian responses to future adversities and conflicts.

CONTRIBUTORS William Alexander Blaikie
James Christie
Nicholas Denysenko
Gary Dorrien
Mark Thomas Edwards
Peter Eisenstadt
Jill K. Gill
Michael Graziano
Barbara Green
Raymond Haberski Jr.
Jeremy Hatfield
Gordon L. Heath
D. Oliver Herbel
Norman Hjelm
Daniel G. Hummel
Dianne Kirby
Leonid Kishkovsky
Nadieszda Kizenko
John Lindner
David Little
Joseph Loya
Paul Mojzes
Andrei V. Psarev
Bruce Rigdon
Walter Sawatsky
Axel R. Schäfer
Todd Scribner
Gayle Thrift
Steven M. Tipton
Frederick Trost
Lucian Turcescu
Charles West
James E. Will
Lois Wilson

INDEX

Aboriginal Rights Coalition, 25

Acheson, Dean, 101, 453

Action Committee Service for Peace (AGDF), 474

Adams, James Luther, 457

Adzhubei, Alexei, 250

AFL-CIO, 438; anti-Communism of, 443, 444

Agency for International Development (AID), 387

Agnew, Spiro, 124–25

Agricultural Act (1949), 387

Albright, Madeleine, 94

Alexis I, 135, 302, 339

Allende, Salvador, 14

Allensworth, Norman, 413–14

Allmand, Warren, 93

Althausen, Johannes, 185n15

America, on Communism, 260n5

American Bar Association, 554

American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC), 102, 370n38, 552; How Red Is the Federal/National Council of Churches?, 102

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 470, 473

American Heritage Foundation, 390

American Institute of Free Labor Development (AIFLD), 444

“American Rape of Vietnam, The” (Hord), 28

Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 165, 546

Anania, Bartolomeu, 351–52

Anania, Valeriu (or Vartolomeu), 352, 353, 360; code name of (“Apostol”), 353; “A Personal and Unofficial Confession,” 355

Anastasii, Metropolitan, 330, 331, 333n23, 334, 336–37, 339

Anderson, Paul F., 334

Anderson, Robert, 379

Angleton, James Jesus, 256

Anti-Semitism, 242–43

Antonescu, Ion, 348, 349; and the Bucharest pogrom (1941), 349

Apartheid, 14

Applewhite, Edgar, 256

Aptheker, Herbert, 529

Arăpaşu, Teoctist, 353–54

Arbatov, Georgi, 22

Arbenz, Jacobo, 194, 542

Arcand, Adrian, 74, 75

Arendt, Hannah, 381

Armed Forces Information and Education (AFIE), 390

Armerding, A. Herman, 395

Au, William A., 281, 282

Austin, A. E., 362n4

Auto Workers, Machinists, Food Workers, and Government Employees (AFSCME), 444

Axworthy, Lloyd, 93, 94; and R2P (responsibility to protect), 94

Bagnell, Kenneth, 45

Bailey, Martin, 148

Bajsić, Vjekoslav, 524

Baker, James, 426

Balăn, Nicolae, 347

Barber, George, 77–78

Barth, Karl, 37, 177, 189n20, 455, 509

Baruch, Bernard, 510

Bass, Diana Butler, 95

Battle for the Family, The (LaHaye), 415–16

Baum, Gregory, 95

Bazett, Barbara, 487

Bea, Augustin, 243

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction (Norman A. Hjelm)
• Canadian Christian Approaches to the Cold War
• US Mainline Protestant Approaches
• Roman Catholic Approaches
• Eastern Orthodox Approaches
• Evangelical Approaches
• Peace Activities
• Lessons Learned
• Contributors
• Index