TY - BOOK AU - Kelsey,George D. TI - Social ethics among Southern Baptists, 1917-1969 SN - 0810805383 AV - BX 6207 .A48 K27 1972 PY - 1972/// CY - Metuchen, NJ PB - The Scarecrow Press, Inc. KW - CHURCH AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS KW - BAPTISTS KW - SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION KW - SOCIAL ETHICS N1 - Includes index; I. The church - The nature of the church - The task of the church - The misunderstanding of "social Christianity" - Anti-Catholicism - Anti-church union and anti-cooperation - Bigotry - Ecumenicity II. Education - The nature of education - Technique and content - The Christian school and the public school - Academic freedom III. The state - The origin of authority - The function and end of the state - The death penalty - Relation of church and state - Duty of the citizen IV. War and peace - The ethics of war - God and war - World war I a crusade - World war II a just war - Gains from war - Pacifism and conscientious objection - The peace settlements - Vietnam V. Prohibition and the restraint of the liquor traffic - The Baptist stand on prohibition and the liquor traffic - The evils of liquor - Waging the prohibition fight - Defending prohibition's achievements and denouncing repeal - Prohibition and the Negro - Waging the battle for restraint and limitation VI. The family - Marriage - Courtship and engagement - Sex and birth control - Relations in the home - Divorce - Dealing with marriage and divorce - Woman VII. The economic order - Viewing the general situation - Property - Prosperity - Prosperity and righteousness - Calling and work - Labor's rights, demands and duties - The strike VIII. Race - From world war I to the end of world war II - After World war II ER -