Religion and Public Life

With its decisions in the Engel case last year and the Schempp and Murray cases just a few weeks ago, the United States Supreme Court has precipitated the problem of religious symbols and ceremonies in public life into a compelling issue of public policy. I hope’ to deal with some of the constitutional and political aspects of this problem in a later article. For the present, I want to address myself to a point that seems to me to need more careful consideration than it has received, since it touches the theological evaluation of these Supreme Court decisions and the trend they represent.

Herberg