American Decades
The Churches of Christ in Time of War
Handbook
By: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
Date: 1917
Source: Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The Churches of Christ in Time of War. Charles S. MacFarland, ed. New York: Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada, 1917, 6–9.
About the Organization: The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (FCC) was founded in 1908. It originally consisted of thirty-three Protestant denominations representing eighteen million members. While there had been cooperation among churches on specific issues before, the founding of the FCC was a major step toward ecumenism (worldwide cooperation among different churches), as it was the first permanent interdenominational organization in the United States. It exists today as the National Council of Churches, which is itself a part of the World Council of...
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1910's Religion Primary Sources
- A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects
- "The Church and the Labor Question"
- "Cardinal's Golden Jubilee"
- America in the Making
- Acres of Diamonds
- Prisoners of Hope and Other Sermons
- "What the Bible Contains for the Believer"
- A Theology for the Social Gospel
- The Churches of Christ in Time of War
- Cardinal Gibbons' Letter to the U.S. Archbishops
- "A Program for the Reconstruction of Judaism"
- "Interchurch World Movement Report"
- Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
