CHURCH AND SOCIETY
Sir -If the Church has no more to say about social questions than Mr. Harold Miller suggested in his national broadcast, then many of us fear for the future of Christianity. To say that the Church should confine its activity to man’s personal salvation--"to making
good men’’-is to perpetrate a dangerous half-truth. It is restricting the Church’s role as Adolf Hitler restricted it, to preparing men’s souls for the hereafter. The Christian Church must be concerned with the whole of man’s lifepersonal holiness and social righteousmess belong together. The Church, as such, as well as individual Christians, needs to be very active concerning political and social affairs if the world is to be redeemed, or else pagan ideologies will increasingly dominate our social relationships.
A. J.
HANDYSIDE
(Roskill).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 5
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131CHURCH AND SOCIETY New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 5
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