Freemasonry and the churches

Don C Markham

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Freemasonry and the churches

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Don C Markham. Freemasonry and the Churches. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/344193b6-f950-481c-92e5-cdb7c23df2a3.

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D. C. Markham. Freemasonry and the churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/344193b6-f950-481c-92e5-cdb7c23df2a3

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Don C Markham. Freemasonry and the Churches. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/344193b6-f950-481c-92e5-cdb7c23df2a3.

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Don C Markham

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Abstract

This dissertation shows the relationship between Freemasonry, the largest of the fraternal orders, and the churches. Examining this relationship in an historical-analytical manner, the writer has tried to show that there is no real conflict between the fraternity and organized religion. The author defines non-sectarian religion using sociological, anthropological and religious works. He gives a brief historical presentation of the fraternity in England and in the United States and explains the institution as it exists in the US. He treats Freemasonry and Protestantism from the standpoint of both the antipathy and the tacit approval of the fraternity among various Protestant groups, concluding that, for mainline Protestantism, there exists a harmonious ambivalence in the relationship. He also deals with Freemasonry relations with Roman Catholicism, Judaism, and the black community. He shows how the principal arguments and objections of religious groups against the fraternity are without foundation since the majority of the arguments are based upon the misconception of Freemasonry as a religion--which it is not--rather than as a fraternity--which it is.

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