AN INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT |
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| Authors: | Allyn P Robinson |
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| Institution: | Director, Commission on Religious Organizations, National Conference of Christians and Jews |
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| Abstract: | Those who believe that under God all men have equal worth and “inalienable rights” have in common ethical concepts that are basic to the welfare of our interdependent democratic society. Interreligious cooperation (cooperation between religious groups) means cooperation in such common concerns as campus social or civic welfare. It does not, however, imply an effort to resolve faith to the lowest common denominator. Rather than encouraging assimilationism, a sound cooperative program will allow each group to maintain its identity and complete integrity and make its distinctive contribution. . Cooperation will be salutary, first if it reckons with and respects the most delicate demands of conscience, and secondly if it becomes an effective instrument for the common good. The common effort is in the civic and social order — that is its field; the grounds of cooperation are the common membership in the race of men, the one family of the one Father. The highest kind of cooperation will be that which yields parallel action in the religious sphere, and joint action in the social and international field. 1 1Allyn P. Robinson, Editor, And Crown Thy Good, A Manual on Interreligious Cooperation on the College Campus, New York; National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1953. p. 13. |
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