prove or disprove social unity?
3. Does a strong sense of social unity make a vigorous individualism
harder to maintain?
II. _Christianity and Solidarity_
1. Give proof that Jesus felt a human hunger for companionship.
2. How does the place assigned to love in the teachings of Jesus bear on
solidarity? How does the duty of forgiveness connect with this?
3. How does the spirit of the Lord's Prayer prove the place of solidarity
in Christianity?
III. _Jesus and the Social Groups_
1. Where did Jesus treat communities as composite personalities? Would it
be equally just today to hold cities responsible as moral units?
2. How did Jesus trace a moral solidarity between generations?
IV. _Solidarity in Modern Life_
1. Where do you see the principle of solidarity accepted and where do you
see it denied in modern social life?
2. In what way does war outrage Jesus' principles of social unity? Does it
ever promote fraternity and solidarity? If so how?
3. Is class consciousness a denial of social solidarity or an approach to
it? How can group loyalty be made to contribute to the common weal?
4. How should we value the willingness of organized labor to stand
together, particularly on strike? What light does bitterness toward scabs
throw on social solidarity?
5. Why is the feeling of antagonism between employer and employe so
common? Does a wage system make this inevitable? Can a real sense of
cooperation be secured? If so how?
6. If a manufacturer has a monopoly, how much profit will loyalty to
Christian principles permit him to make?
7. When is competition unfraternal? Would socialism insure fraternity?
8. Do college fraternities practice fraternity?
V. _Strengthening Solidarity_
1. How can the law of love be made the basis of modern business?
2. Does religion create social unity or neutralize it? How about prayer?
3. How does the Christian law of love bear on the relations of the races
in America?
4. What have Christian missions done to lead society from the
nationalistic to the international and inter-racial stage?
5. Can world-wide social unity be secured without the influence of
Christianity?
VI. _For Special Discussion_
1. To what extent does our present commercial and industrial organization
furnish a basis for experience of solidarity and education in it?
2. What aspects of modern advertising are Christian and which are
non-Christian?
3. To what extent is the law of
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