Table of Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations xv
Introduction Norman A. Hjelm 1
Canadian Christian Approaches to the Cold War
Notes from the Least Comfortable Chair in the Room James Christie 11
Canadian Churches and the Cold War, 1975-1990 Lois Wilson 14
"Has God a Lobby in Ottawa?" The Protestant Left in the United Church of Canada during the Vietnam War, 1966-1968 Gayle Thrift 28
The Cruise Missile Debate in the Canadian Parliament Bill Blaikie 53
Watson Kirkconnell's Covert War against Communism Gordon L. Heath 64
Snapshots from the Northern Front: Canadian Church Experiences during the Cold War James Christie 80
US Mainline Protestant Approaches
The National Council of Churches and the Cold War Jill K. Gill 99
US-USSR Church Relations, 1956-1991 Bruce Rigdon Barbara Green John Lindner 133
Niebuhrian Realism, Cold War Realities, and the Ethics of Empire Gary Dorrien 155
"The Path Is Meant to Be Well Worn": Reflections on Full Communion in the Cold War Frederick R. Trost 179
Howard Thurman, Martin Luther King Jr., the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement, and Postwar Liberal Black Protestantism Peter Eisenstadt 194
Ecumenical Responses to Cold War Issues James E. Will 206
Memoirs of a Participant in East-West Dialogues Charles West 213
Roman Catholic Approaches
Catholic Anti-Communism and the Early Cold War Dianne Kirby 229
American Catholicism and US Intelligence in the Early Cold War Michael Graziano 245
Changing Course: The American Catholic Bishops and the Decline of Anti-Communism during the Cold War Todd Scribner 259
Where Should a Catholic Stand? George Weigel and J. Bryan Hehir Debate the Fate of Just War Theory Raymond Haberski Jr. 277
Eastern Orthodox Approaches
The Orthodox Church in America: Steering through the Cold War Leonid Kishkovsky 295
Sustaining the Fatherland in Exile: Commemoration and Ritual during the Cold War Nicholas Denysenko 310
The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, the Moscow Patriarchate, and Their Participation in Ecumenical Assemblies during the Cold War, 1948-1964 Andrei V. Psarev Nadieszda Kizenko 326
Fascists, Communists, Bishops, and Spies: Romanian Orthodox Churches during the Cold War Lucian Turcescu 342
Redressing Religious Freedom: Anti-Communism and the Rejection of Orthodox Christianity as the "Fourth Major Faith" Dellas Oliver Herbel 361
Evangelical Approaches
Evangelicals and Empire: White Conservative Protestants in US Cold War Politics and Society Axel R. Schåfer 375
The Limits of Evangelical Christian Nationalism during the Cold War Daniel G. Hummel 404
The Great Undecided Group: Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and the Evangelical Debate over Nuclear Weapons Jeremy Hatfield 418
From Cold War to Culture Wars: The Institute on Religion and Democracy Steven M. Tipton 433
Cold War Connections: The Vital Center of Liberal and Conservative Evangelicalism Mark Thomas Edwards 449
Peace Activities
American Peace Churches and the Cold War Walter Sawatsky 467
"For, Not of, the CPC": Christians Associated for Relations with Eastern Europe (CAREE) as a Study in Soft Power Peace Adyocacy Joseph Loya, OSA 492
An American Perspective on the Cold War's Impact on Christian-Marxist Dialogue Paul Mojzes 508
Lessons Learned
American Christians and the Challenge of the Cold War David Little 535
Contributors 567
Index 574
