Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Conference Date

7-1958

Excerpt

Interracial Marriage? An Answer from Theology, Biology, Sociology

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE - FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THEOLOGY By Lorman M. Petersen

INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE - FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF BIOLOGY By Carl H. Krekeler

INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE - A SOCIOLOGICAL VIEWPOINT By Richard E. Sommerfeld

MARRIAGE IS HONORABLE IN ALL Sermon by Clemence Sabourin

THE UNIQUE STATUS OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN By Fred H. Massey

THE IMPACT OF RACE RELATIONS IN OUR LAND ON OTHER NATIONS FOR THE WEAL OR WOE OF CHURCH AND STATE Banquet Address by Louis P. Lochner

PROGRESS REPORT ON RACE RELATIONS • Panelists: (1) M. N. Carter, Jr. (2) Lillian Hatcher (3) William H. Hillmer

RESOLUTIONS (Resolutions 1-4 directed to The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod) (1) Re continuing opposition to Scriptural truths (2) Re combating fiction with reliable facts about race (3) Re the elimination of objectional practices (4) Re editorials on the stand which The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod has taken on racial discrimination (5) Re fact-finding committee to be appointed (6) Re study of the "effects of racial prejudice upon missionary undertakings in countries where colored peoples predominate (7) Concerning a study of discriminatory processes (8) Concerning the cooperation of mission boards with the office of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the responsibility of congregations toward American Indians living in their community (9) Resolutions of thanks

Annual Report of Executive Secretary of LHRAA

A Statement of Principles and Functions of the Lutheran Human Relations Association of America

(Two panel discussions on communicant integration were held. On the first panel, the Rev. Paul E. Schuessler of Our Redeemer Church in Chicago was the moderator, and the panelists were members of Our Redeemer and St. Stephen Churches in Chicago. The Rev. Walter Heyne acted as moderator of the second panel, and members of his church, Berea in Detroit, were panel members.)

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