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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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National Council of Churches Review
Author: The National Christian Council Review
Author: Church People in the Struggle
Author: James F. FindlayPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019511812X
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
In the 1960s, the mainstream Protestant churches responded to an urgent need by becoming deeply involved with the national black community in its struggle for racial justice. The National Council of Churches (NCC), as the principal ecumenical organization of the national Protestant religious establishment, initiated an active new role by establishing a Commission on Religion and Race in 1963. Focusing primarily on the efforts of the NCC, this is the first study by an historian to examine the relationship of the predominantly white, mainstream Protestant Churches to the Civil Rights movement. Drawing on hitherto little-used and unknown archival resources and extensive interviews with participants, Findlay documents the churches' committed involvement in the March on Washington in 1963, the massive lobbying effort to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, their powerful support of the struggle to end legal segregation in Mississippi, and their efforts to respond to the Black Manifesto and the rise of black militancy before and during 1969. Findlay chronicles initial successes, then growing frustration as the events of the 1960s unfolded and the national liberal coalition, of which the churches were a part, disintegrated. While never losing sight of the central, indispensable role of the African-American community, Findlay's study for the first time makes clear the highly significant contribution made by liberal religious groups in the turbulent, exciting, moving, and historic decade of the 1960s.
The Growing Super-church
Author: James DeForest MurchNational Council of Churches Review
Author: The National Council of Churches
Author: James DeForest MurchThe Great Apostasy
Author: William Steuart McBirniePublisher:
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Category : Communism and Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Embattled Ecumenism
Author: Jill GillPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501756966
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 565
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The Vietnam War and its polarizing era challenged, splintered, and changed The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. (NCC), which was motivated by its ecumenical Christian vision to oppose that war and unify people. The NCC's efforts on the war exposed its strengths and imploded its weaknesses in ways instructive for religious institutions that bring their faith into politics. Embattled Ecumenism explores the ecumenical vision, anti-Vietnam War efforts, and legacy of the NCC. Gill's monumental study serves as a window into the mainline Protestant manner of engaging political issues at a unique time of national crisis and religious transformation. In vibrant prose, Gill illuminates an ecumenical institution, vision, and movement that has been largely misrepresented by the religious right, dismissed by the secular left, misunderstood by laity, and ignored by scholars outside of ecumenical circles. At a time when the majority of scholarly work is committed to looking at the religious right, Gill's groundbreaking study of the Protestant Left is a welcome addition. Embattled Ecumenism will appeal to scholars of U.S. religion, politics, and culture, as well as historians of evangelicalism and general readers interested in U.S. history and religion.
The Handbook of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, 1967-68-69
Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The National Council of Churches Views Its Task in Christian Life and Work
Author: National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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