Abstract
It was one of the many ironies of the integration of Western Europe that the grounds for its rapid progress in the 1940s and 1950s owed so much to Cold War forces and polices which were simultaneously destructive to the unity of Europe as a whole. The forced separation and isolation of the nations of the eastern half of the continent for over forty years was even, in a limited, but real sense, a consequence of unity in the West. That the Churches, which spoke so much of recovering the unity of Christendom and thus of Europe, were active agents in these divisive processes illustrates further the tragic irony of the moment.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Raymond Smith and John Zametica, ‘The Cold Warrior: Clement Attlee reconsidered, 1945–7’, International Affairs, vol. 61, no. 2 (1985), pp. 237–52.
George K.A. Bell, ‘Introduction’, pp. ix-xii in D.M. Mackinnon (ed.), Christian Faith and Communist Faith: A Series of Studeis by Members of the Anglican Communion (London: Macmillan, 1953).
J.H. Oldham, ‘Relations with the USSR’, The Christian News-Letter, no. 275, 11 December 1946, pp. 1–16.
Hanna-Maija Ketola, ‘Teaching ‘Correct’ Attitudes: an Anglican Emissary to Sweden and Finland in 1944’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 55, no. 1 (January 2004), pp. 75–101.
Hugh Martin, Douglas Newton, H.M. Waddams and R.R. Williams, Christian Counter-Attack: Europe’s Churches Against Nazism (London: SCM, 1943), pp. 12.
Barbara Ward, ‘The Choice Before Europe’, The Christian News-Letter, no. 289, 9 July 1947.
Barbara Ward, Democracy East and West, (London: Bureau of Current Affairs, 1947).
Ronald H. Preston, ‘Unity in the Church and World’, The Student Movement, vol. XLVIX, no. 3 (January-February 1947), pp. 1–4.
Parliamentary Socialist Christian Group, In This Faith We Live (London: PSCG, 1948), pp. 10–12.
The Church of Scotland, ‘Report of the Committee on Church and Nation to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland’ (May 1948), pp. 287–91.
The Church of Scotland, ‘Report of the Commission on Communism’ (May 1950), pp. 601–608.
R.J. Wedderspoon, ‘Communism’, The Expository Times, vol. LCI, no. 9 (June 1950), 264–65.
Gordon Lang, ‘The Case for United Europe’, Federal News, no. 144 (March 1947), p. 6.
Randolph S Churchill, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948 by Winston S. Churchill (London: Cassell, 1950), p. 83.
Gordon Albion, ‘The Church and the Cultural Heritage of Europe’, The Sword, vol. 11, no. 149 (June-July 1951), pp. 229–36.
Church Assembly, ‘The Spiritual Inheritance of Europe’, Report of Proceedings, vol. XXXI, no. 2 (Summer Session, 1951), pp. 266–71.
Jonathan Luxmoore and Jolanta Babiuch, The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1999), pp. 1–23.
Ivor Thomas, Warfare by Words (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1942), pp. 17–20.
Ivor Thomas, A Free Italy in a Free Europe (London: Friends of Free Italy, 1944).
Ivor Thomas, The Socialist Tragedy (London: Latimer House, 1949).
Barbara Ward, Policy for the West (Harmondsworth; Penguin Books, 1951).
Barbara Ward, ‘The Fate of Europe’, The Christian News-Letter, no. 240, 8 August 1945, pp. 6–8.
Barbara Ward, ‘Christian Co-operation and Europe’, The Christian News-Letter, no. 144, 29 July 1942.
Adrian Hastings, A History of English Christianity (London: SCM, 1991), p. 322.
Robert Jay Lifton, The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (London: Macmillan, 1986), pp. 246–89.
G.E. Hildred, ‘The Battle for the Soul of Europe (VI): Western European Union (II)’, The Sword, vol. 12, no. 152 (November 1951), pp. 56–63.
Stephen C. Neill, ‘The Church in a Revolutionary World’, International Review of Missions, vol. 36 (October 1947), pp. 434–51.
Stephen Neill, ‘The Churches and the Iron Curtain’, The Fortnightly, vol. CLXIII (1948), 232–238.
J.M. Richardson, ‘Amsterdam’, Free Church Chronicle, vol. III (October 1948), pp. 2–3.
Merrilyn Thomas, Communing with the Enemy: Covert Operations, Christianity and Cold War Politics in Britain and the GDR (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 124–31.
Katharina Kunter, Die Kirchen in KSZE — Prozess 1968–1978 (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag, 2000).
Copyright information
© 2006 Philip M. Coupland
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Coupland, P.M. (2006). Christendom, Communism and the Division of Europe. In: Britannia, Europa and Christendom. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627697_7
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627697_7
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-51954-5
Online ISBN: 978-0-230-62769-7
eBook Packages: Palgrave History CollectionHistory (R0)