HIST 304 Lecture Notes - Pope John Paul I, Encyclical, Sistine Chapel
18 Apr 2013
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Terms: csce (conference for security and cooperation in europe), Helsinki, geneva, eec (eu), amnesty international, brandt, ostpolitik, Wyszynsjki, charter 77, john xxiii, paul vi, john paul ii, cracow, Natural law derived from nature or reason, not from law. Roosevelt advisors was opposed to the creation of an international human rights regime. Lenin and stalin attack the russian orthodox church. 1931 demolition of cathedral of christ the savoir in moscow. Orthodox church in no position to facilitate resistance. Resistance was against historical tradition of submission to state authority. Baltic states had huge lutheran populations (estonia, latvia, Lutheran church in e. germany and czechoslovakia faired better, not considered a threat and able to make deals wit communist regimes to stay out of politics: would ultimately play important roles in 1980s, environmental movements. Unlike other major churches in socialist world, had international hierarchy. Most states accepted it in international law and did not intervene in church affairs.
