La moralité et le comportement des Églises néo­ protestantes sous le communisme. Le cas de l'Église Baptiste en Roumanie
Neo-Protestant Morality and Conduct under Communism. The Case of the Romanian Baptist Church

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks confirmation of the hypothesis that the persecution of the Baptist communities during Romania's communist period was due to their refusal to collaborate with the regime. The text begins with a concise histori­cal overview, tracing the ministerial interdictions and destitutions, the inten­sifying atheist propaganda, the various changes to the Baptist statutes, the protests and the creative adjustments of the believers, which added to the con­flict between the authorities and the Baptist Church. After a theoretical excur­sus into the incompatibility between communism and the Christian preaching, the author performs an evaluation of the extent to which the Romanian Baptists had accepted communism as an ideology, referring to their assessment of communism, on one hand, and including specific examples of the documented methods of the Securitate to impact their behavior, on the other hand. Developing in great detail a case study on the persecution of Reverend Petru Dugulescu, based on the manuscript of his memoirs and corroborating testi­monies, she closes with an appraisal of the role and involvement of the Baptist Church in the Romanian society

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