This article is from a term paper submitted as classwork at Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and guided by their excellent staff. The religious persecutions carried out under Joseph Stalin represent one of the most aggressive attempts in modern history to eliminate institutional religion from both public and private life. British historian Robert Conquest in his book Stalin: Breaker of Nations demonstrates that under a system rooted in militant atheism and total state cont

This article is from a term paper done for a class at Holy Apostles College and Seminary and guided by their excellent faculty. Epigraph Could we with ink the ocean fill, Or were the skies of parchment made, Were every tongue on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry, Nor could the whole contain the scroll, though stretched from sky to sky.[i] I. Introduction: The Limits of Language and the Task of Theology