A nine-member council, to act as an advisory body in dealing with political and social problems involving religious differences, has been appointed by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, president of the NCCJ, announced here today.
The council, said Dr. Jones, will aid implementation of a new NCCJ project whose overall purpose is to raise the general level of discussion and understanding among religious groups on such controversial issues as Federal aid to private and parochial schools, birth control legislation, Bible reading in public schools, and Sunday closing legislation.
Four of the members of the council are prominent Protestant, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Jewish theologians, They are: Dr, John C. Bennett, of the Union Theological Seminary; Rev, Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, professor at the School of Divinity at Woodstock College in Maryland; Rev. John S. Romanides, of Holy Cross Theological Seminary, Brookline, Mass.; and Dr. Robert Gordis, of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York. The other members are noted educators. Rabbi Arthur Gilbert will serve as NCCJ staff consultant to the council.
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