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Embattled ecumenism
Jill K. Gill

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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 and general readers interested in U.S. history and religion.

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Embattled ecumenism
the National Council of Churches, the Vietnam War, and the trials of the Protestant left
Jill K. Gill

Published 2011 by Northern Illinois University Press in DeKalb .
Written in English.

Table of Contents

Introduction: ecumenism and the Vietnam War
The roots of ecumania
The NCC and the American way of life
A brief interlude on Vietnam, to 1963
Awakening a loyal opposition, 1964-July 1965
Taking a stand, July-December 1965
Building an ecumenical peace witness, 1966
Sparking debate and action, 1967
Campaigns, confrontations, and civil disobedience, 1968
Courting Nixon, December 1968-fall 1969
Ecumenical erosion, fall-December 1969
Fighting Nixon and seeking a new strategy, January 1970-March 1971
Waging a moral argument, March 1971-January 1973
Epilogue: forty years in the wilderness.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
277.3/08206
Library of Congress
BX6.N2 G55 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24839764M
ISBN 13
9780875804439
LC Control Number
2011014780

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