Charles Clayton Morrison

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Charles Clayton Morrison (1874–1966) was an American

Disciples of Christ minister and Christian socialist
.

Born in

Disciples of Christ
journal. Within a decade he had broadened the journal's reach by offering a broadly Protestant perspective. As he did this, he added the subtitle "An Undenominational Journal of Religion." With donations and gradually increasing subscribership, the magazine survived and prospered under his editorship until his retirement in 1947.

During Morrison's stewardship in the 1930s and 1940s, the Christian Century was accused of being antisemitic.[1][2][3] It published articles opposing American intervention in World War II for the benefit of the Jews persecuted under the Nazis; arguing moral equivalence between an alleged Jewish-nationalist crucifixion of Jesus and the Nazi persecution of Jews; condemning American Jews for maintaining their distinct identity; and criticizing Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress, for allegedly exaggerating the Holocaust.[4] As late as 1944 the magazine published articles such as "A Reply to Screamers" by Fred Eastman[5] which admonished the suggestion that there was a moral obligation for the United States to aid in the plight of European Jews being murdered during the Holocaust. Marty, writing about the 1940s, described the Christian Century at that time as being an "anti-Zionist" publication.[6]

Morrison became a well-known spokesman for liberal

ecumenical movement, particularly the establishment of the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches
.

Notable quotes

  • "The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership."

References: W. Clark Gilpin, "Morrison, Charles Clyton (1874-1966), in The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement. Edited by Douglas A. Foster, et al. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Company, 2004), pp. 545–546.

References

  1. OCLC 463014711
    .
  2. OCLC 45870561.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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  3. ^ "Has Christian Century Turned a Corner? Maybe . . ". CAMERA. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  4. ^ "The Stubborn Antisemitism of Yahoo and The Christian Century". CAMERA. Retrieved 2021-07-01.
  5. ISSN 0009-5281
    .
  6. ^ Modern American Religion: Under God, Indivisible, 1941-1960, Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 189.


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