id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_zrmgejrsqncwbhzvx7n6fag3u4 Joachim Willems Russian German Lutheran 'Brotherhoods' in the Soviet Union and in the CIS: Comments on their Confessional Identity and on their Position in ELCROS 2002 10 .pdf application/pdf 5770 297 57 Russian German Lutheran 'Brotherhoods' in the Soviet communities had in fact been 'dissident Pietist congregations trying to free themselves from the control of the official Lutheran clergymen imposed on them by the Russian Germans had become Baptists or had joined the 'so-called Lutheran believers remain in the Lutheran church in Russia today.2 This concludes Filatov's they still consider themselves to be Lutherans, still belong to the EvangelicalLutheran Church in Russia and Other States (ELCROS).5 Groups of 'brotherhoods' told me that they had moved to another town where there was no Lutheran congregation and as a result they had attended the local Baptist prayer-house. of how the Lutheran congregations' identity during the Soviet era can be more congregations among its members (although the ELC was a purely Lutheran church Russian German Lutheran 'Brotherhoods' 227 Russian German Lutheran 'Brotherhoods' 227 Russian German Lutheran 'Brotherhoods' 227 Russian German Lutheran 'Brotherhoods' 227 ./cache/work_zrmgejrsqncwbhzvx7n6fag3u4.pdf ./txt/work_zrmgejrsqncwbhzvx7n6fag3u4.txt