PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC :: 1957 HB

• Hardback Book
• Written by Kenneth Wilson Underwood
• Over 480 pages
• Copyright © 1957 by Kenneth Wilson Underwood

" This book is a report on the interactions of Protestants and Catholics in one American industrial community. It is also an inquiry "in depth" into American culture through a study of what is for many of our people the most significant aspect of their daily experience - their religion. "

" While the facts are presented as objectively as the author can show them, he does not hesitate to attempt to interpret their implications for America and the Western democracies in today's great world struggles. The book offers no blueprints, no panaceas, no easy generalizations, yet it seeks to give meaning to data which originated out of some fundamental questions stemming from the researcher's own views and aspirations. "

" The tone of the book is neither that of sensational exposé nor that of sentimental good will. It seeks to deal with the full richness of the American Christian inheritance. This is a richness which can be seen only if differences as well as likenesses in our major faith groups are appreciated and understood, and not lost in fuzzy talk of common spiritual values and ideals. There is nothing the religious groups need to hide, nor the American people need to fear, in a frank facing of the nature of the relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants. There are, of course, tensions, anxieties, frustrations and triumphs to be noted in detail. We are dealing with faiths in history, not in some utopia, and we are reporting the inner meaning of Roman Catholic and Protestant growth and interaction, as expressed by members of both religious movements. "

Contents include:

" Preface
Introduction

PART I: THE SANGER INCIDENT
1. The Incident
2. The Aftermath

PART II: THE CHURCHES IN THEMSELVES
3. A Protestant City Becomes Catholic
4. The Role of the Churches in Man's Salvation
5. Worship in the Churches
6. The Faith of Laymen
7. The Spiritual Authority of the Religious Leader
8. The Organization of the Religious Community
9. Bingo and Building Funds: The Financial Problem
10. Tolerance and Religious Liberty
11. Interfaith Association

PART III: THE CHURCHES IN THE COMMUNITY
12. Class and Parish
13. The "Foreign" and the "Native"
14. The Churches and Recreation
15. The Churches, Business and Industry
16. The Churches and the Labor Movement
17. The Morality of Politics
18. The Politics of the Churches
19. The Churches and Political Reform
20. The Churches and Political Compromise

Conclusion

APPENDIX
The Point of View
Notes on Methodology
Chart of Doctrinal Characteristics

Tables
Maps
Bibliography
Notes
Index "

This is a previously owned church library book with several stampings and markings plus a pocket on the last page.
The cover is pretty worn around the edges especially along the binding side.
The pages are yellowed along the edges, mostly visible from the side view.
There is some separation along the inside binding edge at the end of the book.
No torn or ripped pages.

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