The Christian Church in the Cold War

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pt. 1. Eastern Europe -- 1. The beginnings of the Cold War -- The Russian conquests -- Reconstruction -- The morality of Tyrannicide -- The Federal Republic of Germany -- Christianity and the Holocaust -- Pope Pius XII and Communism -- 2. The attack upon Christianity in Eastern Europe -- The secular Rites -- Monks and Nuns -- The State control of the Churches -- The Christian cooperation 3. Violence -- Albania -- The destruction of the Uniats -- 4. Show trials -- Tiso in Slovakia -- Stepinac in Yugoslavia -- Mindszentry in Hungary -- 5. The effects of the Marxist attack -- pt. 2 Western Europe -- 6. The West and Marxism -- The second Vatican council and the Cold War -- Religious Liberty -- the Council and communism -- 7. The way of worship -- 8. Charisma -- 9. The ministry -- Married priests -- The Ordination of women -- Retirement age -- 10. Monks and Nuns -- The historic orders -- Mount Athos -- Other Greek Monasteries and Nunneries -- Protestant Monks and Nuns -- Taize -- 11. Ethics -- Divorce -- Contraception -- Abortion -- Torture -- 12. Church and state in Western Europe -- Constitutions -- Taxes -- The Head of the State -- Movements to Separate Church and State -- Spain -- Greece -- Germany -- Switzerland -- 13. Perestroika -- The election of Pope John Paul I. in 1978 -- The Election of Pope John Paul II in 1978 -- Gorbachev.