Rose Terlin
| Rose R. Terlin | |
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| Born |
24 October 1908 San Francisco, California, US |
| Died | 17 June 1979 (aged 70) Washington, D.C., US |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Known for | YWCA leader |
Rose R. Terlin (24 October 1908 – 17 June 1979) was an American Christian leader, economist, author of several books on religion and economic justice and a YWCA leader. During and after World War II (1939–45) she held various senior government positions.
Rose R. Terlin was born in San Francisco in 1908. She studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where she gained a master's degree in economics. The Fellowship of Socialist Christians was organized in the early 1930s by Reinhold Niebuhr and others with similar views. Later it changed its name to Frontier Fellowship and then to Christian Action. Rose Terlin was one of the main supporters of the Fellowship in the early days, as were Eduard Heimann, Sherwood Eddy and Paul Tillich. In its early days the group thought capitalist individualism was incompatible with Christian ethics. Although not Communist, the group acknowledged Karl Marx's social philosophy.
Terlin wrote about the connection between religion and economic justice. In her 1936 You and I and the Movies she noted that in typical labor films like Black Fury or Riff-Raff it is taken for granted that there is "no cause for the strike save personal animosities or someone's personal ambition." Hollywood would very rarely blame a business for giving cause to strike. In her Christian Faith and Social Action (1940) she wrote,
The Christian faith is a realistic combination of the personal and social. It deals with persons – and their achieving of life and wholeness – but also with the religious importance of their relations with other people ... We who call ourselves Christians, who claim to be committed to the will of God, have a greater responsibility than anyone else to stand for justice, equality and the right of all human beings to share in the fruits of the earth ... [Christianity] lays upon us the inescapable responsibility to judge fearlessly the moral issues involved in the present world crisis and to act realistically for the achievement of a new world order. Such a task is not all sweetness and light. It demands all we have and then more. But to them that are willing to do his will, God gives strength and power and life.
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