Social Pronouncements of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1960-1969. Excerpts from Statements adopted by the General Assembly, 1960-1969.

by U.S. Presbyterian Church

Paperback, 1969

Call number

HN 39 .L16 1969

Publication

Board of Christian Education, Presbyterian Church in the United States.

Physical description

63 p.; 19 cm

Notes

CONTENTS
Foreword.
Introduction.
I. The Nature and Authority of Social Pronouncements.
--The Nature and Authority of Social Pronouncements.
--The Purpose of Social Pronouncements.
--The Limitations of the Church of Making Social Pronouncements.
--The Good Faith and Integrity of Our Church.

II. The Responsibility of the Church in the World.
--The Theological Basis for Christian Social Action.
--The Range of Christian Responsibility.

III. International Affairs.
--Antiballistic Missiles System.
--Birth Control.
--Disarmament, Nuclear.
--Hunger.
--Middle East.
--Nuclear Weapons.
--Population Explosions.
--Refugees.
--United Nations.
--Vietnam: Some Questions for Christians.
--Vietnam.
--War and Peace.

IV. Domestic Issues.
--Campus Disorders.
--Capital Punishment.
--Church and State, Separation of
--Civil Disobedience.
--Civil Rights Movement.
--Conscientious Object to Particular Conflicts.
--Demonstrations.
--Discrimination in the Church.
--Economic Power, Church's Use of
--Federal Aid to Parochial Schools.
--Firearms Control.
--Housing, Equal Opportunity.
--Justice, Law and Order.
--Law Enforcement.
--Obscene Literature.
--Poverty.
--Political Responsibility.
--Racial Disorders.
--Religion in Public Schools.
--Segregation.
--Selective Service Reform.
--Selective Service Regulations for Clergy.
--Sex, Christian View of
--Work as Vocation.

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008a106144

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