RT Article
T1 The Race Problem and Presbyterian Union
JF Church history
VO 31
SP 203
OP 215
A1 Reimers, David M.
LA English
YR 1962
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/596366345
AB After nearly a century of division the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the southern church) and the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (the northern church) attempted to unite in 1954. The southern Presbyterians voted against the merger and kept America's two largest Presbyterian bodies divided. Although little was said concerning race relations during the debates on unification, there is reason to believe that the race issue was extremely important in the defeat of the plan in the South. Two sociologists, perhaps exaggerating, have concluded that it was the key factor in the failure of union. In 1955 the moderator of the southern church told the General Assembly of the North that he felt the Negro question, in particular the Supreme Court's decision on school desegregation, affected the vote; and the organ of the North, Presbyterian Life, echoed this opinion.
K1 Reformierte Kirchen
K1 USA/United States of America/Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
K1 Rassismus
K1 Kirchliche Stellungnahme
K1 Reformed Churches
K1 USA/United States of America
K1 Racism
K1 church statements