The Society of Christian Ethics (U.S.) Records: Presented in Honor of Edward L. Long Jr.

The SCE Records were originally arranged in four series: Annual meetings, Correspondence-subject files, Financial material, and Membership materials.

The Annual meetings series contains material pertaining to the organization, planning, and execution of the annual meetings, including minutes, programs, and papers. Other material related to annual meetings may be found in the Executive Secretary's files in the Correspondence-subject files series.

The Correspondence-subject files series contains correspondence within the SCE, correspondence between the SCE and other organizations, and material relating to the structure of the SCE. Large portions of this material are devoted to The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Executive Secretary's files. The Executive Secretary's files have a year-by-year history of the SCE spanning the years 1959 (just prior to its founding) to 1989. This history includes correspondence, minutes, papers presented at the annual meeting, and reports for many of the years documented in the collection. Individuals represented include board members and officers (Joseph L. Allen, Waldo Beach, E. Clinton Gardner, Edward Le Roy Long, Daniel C. Maguire, Douglas Sturm, Max L. Stackhouse, and J. Philip Wogaman). Organizations represented include the American Academy of Religion, the American Society of Christian Social Ethics, the Council on the Study of Religion, and the Societas Ethica.

The Financial material series contains material pertaining to SCE financial transactions, and includes bank statements, financial correspondence, ledgers, receipts, and reports.

The Membership materials series includes applications, correspondence, inquiries, completed applications, rosters, and vitae.

Additional records that were not processed by Syracuse and were later accessioned by Princeton Theological Seminary contain much of the same material as the original collection; including material from the same date range (1953-1991), but with additional material primarily from the 1990s. In addition, two new series were created: Publications by the Society, and Papers submitted for the annual conferences.

The Publication series contains recent editions of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and The Annual. The summer 1983 edition of The Journal of Law and Ethics is also included.

The Papers submitted for annual conferences series contains unsorted papers (in draft and final presented versions) considered for panel discussions at the SCE's annual conferences.

For the original collection arranged by Syracuse, Annual meeting material is arranged chronologically by meeting and within that alphabetically by type. Correspondence-subject files are arranged alphabetically. Financial material is arranged alphabetically by topic and within that chronologically. Membership material is arranged alphabetically by topic.

To preserve provenance the addenda collection was not integrated into the original collection. Files that fit the series descriptions created by Syracuse Library were arranged in the same manner as above, in a separate set of records. Materials that fell outside of the scope of the original set of series, or were more extensive in number than in the original collection, were arranged into the two new series.

The material within the Publications series is arranged alphabetically by title and chronologically within each title. The Papers submitted for annual conferences are unsorted.