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2 Bull. Comm'n Study Org. Peace 1 (1942)

handle is hein.journals/bltcmsy2 and id is 1 raw text is: Bulletin of the COMMISSION TO STUDY THE ORGANIZATION OF PEACE It S WEST FORTIETH STREET New York, New York JAMES T. sHOTWELL, Chairman WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON, Chairman Executive Committee CLARK M. EICHELBERGER, Director CLYDE EAGLETON, Chairman Studies Committee This bulletin will summarize, or carry in full whenever possible, official or unofficial suggestions, in this country or abroad, for the future organization of peace. Vol. II January-February, 1942 No. I'and II A DIGEST OF RELIGIOUS STATEMENTS on PEACE AND POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION INDEX PAGE 1. Oxford Conference, 1937 ....................... ....... ............... 1 2. Madras Conference, 1938 .................. 3 3. International Conference of Lay Experts and Ecumenical Leaders, The Churches and the International Crisis, 1939 4 4. Pope Pius XII, Christmas Eve Address, 1939 .._........ 5 5. The National Study Conference on the Churches and the International Situation, 1940, ''Churches and the International Situation 6....... . ............ 6 6. General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, Christian Attitudes in a Warring World, 1940 ................ 7 7. The Archbishops of Canterbury, York and Westminister, and the Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council, 1940, Foundations of Peace-A Christian Basis-Agreement Among the Churches 8. Malvern Conference, 1941 8 9. United Church of Canada, The Chrstian Church and the New Order, t941 . . . . .9 10. The Church of Scotland, 1941 10 11. Methodist Exploratory Conference on the Bases of a Just and Enduring Peace, 1941, Political Structure and Proposed Transitional Steps Toward a Just and Enduring Peace - 11 12. American Friends Service Committee, A Call to Persons of Good Will, 1941 12 PAGE 13. The Church Peace Union, Peace Aims, 1941 .. .............. 12 14. Catholic Association for International Peace, America's Peace Aims, 1941 ...................................... 13 15. Catholic Association for International Peace, The World Society, 1941 .. .................. ........................... 14 16. Central Conference of American Rabbis, Program of World Reconstruction, 1941 ............. ....................17 1. American Council, World Alliance for International Friend- ship Through the Churches, A Program of Action, 1941 18 18. Committee on International Relations, Presiding Bishop's Council of Advice, Episcopal General Convention, 1941 18 19. Commission of the Churches for International Friendship and Social Responsibility in Britain, Social Justice and Economic Reconstruction, 1941. . ............ .... 19 '0. Fellosship of Reconciliation, Our Way in the Midst of War,r 1941.... ...._.. ....... ..._. ................. 20 21. Pope Pius XII, Christmas Es'e Address, 1941 ...._. 20 22. House of Bishops, Protestant Episcopal Churches, 1942, 'We Shall Not Be Found Wanting _.. 21 2i. Statement signed by leading Protestants, Catholics and Jews, issued by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1942 ...............................................21 24. National Study Conference on the Responsibility of the Church with respect to the Post-War World, 1942 ......._. 22 NOTE: This Bulletin is devoted to quotations from statements by religious groups dealing with the organization of peace and post-war reconstruction. In order to include the essential points of the various statements, it has been found necessary to combine two issues of the Bulletin into one. 1. Oxford Conference,' 1937 Representatives of Protestant and Orthodox churches of many nations met to clarify the relation of the churches to the modern world. This Conference on Church, Community and State discussed the function of the church community and issued a formal report to the churches of the world. II. Report of the Section on Church and State life of all peoples. . . . Since we believe in the holy God as We recognize the existing states as historically given reali- mate source of justice, we do not consider the state as the ulti- ties, each of which in the political sphere is the highest au- lord hut the servant of justice. s g . s thority, but which, as it stands itself under the authority and the judgment of God, is bound by his will and has the God- III. Report of the Section on Church, Community given aim of upholding law and order, of ministering to the and State in Relation to the Economic Order life of the people united within it or of the peoples or groups The relative and departmental standard for all the social so united, and also of making its contribution to the common arrangements and institutions, all the economic structures and 1. The text of the official report of the Oxford Conference was published in political systems, by which the life of man is ordered is the the United States by Willett, Clark & Co., Chicago-New York. 1937. S2.00. principle of justice . . . principles of justice restrain evil and

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