The Social Gospel

Author : Walter Rauschenbusch
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664257305

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A Theology for the Social Gospel by Walter Rauschenbusch Pdf

A Theology for the Social Gospel is undoubtedly Walter Rauschenbusch's most enduring work. It is here that Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel in the United States, articulates the theological roots of social activism that surged forth from mainline Protestant churches in the early part of the twentieth century. Skillfully examining the great theological issues of the Christian faith--sin, evil, salvation, and the kingdom of God--Rauschenbauch offers a powerful justification for the church to fully engage society. The Library of Theological Ethics series focuses on what it means to think theologically and ethically. It presents a selection of important and otherwise unavailable texts in easily accessible form. Volumes in this series will enable sustained dialogue with predecessors though reflection on classic works in the field.

Author : Ronald Cedric White,Charles Howard Hopkins
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0877220840

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The Social Gospel by Ronald Cedric White,Charles Howard Hopkins Pdf

Author note: Ronald C. White, Jr. is Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. >P>C. Howard Hopkins is Professor of History Emeritus at Rider College and Director of the John R. Mott Biography Project. He is the author of The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism.

Author : Ralph E. Luker
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863107

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The Social Gospel in Black and White by Ralph E. Luker Pdf

In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement. As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new generation of black and white reformers--many of them representatives of American social Christianity--explored a variety of solutions to the problem of racial conflict. Some of them helped to organize the Federal Council of Churches in 1909, while others returned to abolitionist and home missionary strategies in organizing the NAACP in 1910 and the National Urban League in 1911. A half century later, such organizations formed the institutional core of America's civil rights movement. Luker also shows that the black prophets of social Christianity who espoused theological personalism created an influential tradition that eventually produced Martin Luther King Jr.

Author : Christopher H Evans
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479884490

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The Social Gospel in American Religion by Christopher H Evans Pdf

A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement. The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty were all brought to our attention through the social gospel movement. Its impact on American society makes it one of the most influential developments in American religious history. Christopher H. Evans traces the development of the social gospel in American Protestantism, and illustrates how the religious idealism of the movement also rose up within Judaism and Catholicism. Contrary to the works of previous historians, Evans demonstrates how the presence of the social gospel continued in American culture long after its alleged demise following World War I. Evans reveals the many aspects of the social gospel and their influence on a range of social movements during the twentieth century, culminating with the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It also explores the relationship between the liberal social gospel of the early twentieth century and later iterations of social reform in late twentieth century evangelicalism. The Social Gospel in American Religion considers an impressive array of historical figures including Washington Gladden, Emil Hirsch, Frances Willard, Reverdy Ransom, Walter Rauschenbusch, Stephen Wise, John Ryan, Harry Emerson Fosdick, A.J. Muste, Georgia Harkness, and Benjamin Mays. It demonstrates how these figures contributed to the shape of the social gospel in America, while arguing that the movement’s legacy lies in its profound influence on broader traditions of liberal-progressive political reform in American history.

Author : Christopher Hodge Evans
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664222528

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The Social Gospel Today by Christopher Hodge Evans Pdf

The contributors explore how the theological tradition of the Social Gospel, born within the social and cultural dislocations of late 19th-century America, relates to the dislocations of the current American scene. The contributors argue that America's only indigenous theological tradition remains powerfully relevant to mainline churches and to the scholars who work out of these institutions.

Author : Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards,Carolyn De Swarte Gifford
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0252070976

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Gender and the Social Gospel by Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards,Carolyn De Swarte Gifford Pdf

This collection of essays examines the central, yet often overlooked, role played by women in the formation of the social gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A practical theological response to the stark realities of poverty and injustice prevalent in turn-of-the-century America, the social gospel movement sought to apply the teachings of Jesus and the message of Christian salvation to society by striving to improve the lives of the impoverished and the disenfranchised. The contributors to this volume set out to broaden our understanding of this radical movement by examining the lives of some of its passionate and vibrant female participants and the ways in which their involvement expanded and enriched the scope of its activity. In addition to examining the lives of individual women, the essays in Gender and the Social Gospel contain broader analyses of the gender and racial issues that have caused the histories of movements such as the social gospel to be viewed almost exclusively in terms of their male, European-American, intellectual participants at the expense of the women, African Americans, and Canadians whose contributions were just as worthy of attention.

Author : Bruce J. Malina
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0800632478

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The Social Gospel of Jesus by Bruce J. Malina Pdf

Scholars are agreed that the central metaphor in Jesus' proclamation was the kingdom of God. But what did that phrase mean in the first-century Palestinian world of Jesus? Since it is a political metaphor, what did Jesus envision as the political import of his message? Since this is tied to the political economy, how was that structured in Jesus' day? How is the violence of Jesus' Mediterranean world addressed in the kingdom? And how does "self-denial" fit into Jesus' agenda? Malina tackles these questions in a very accessible way, providing a social-scientific analysis, meaning that he brings to bear explicit models and a comparative approach toward an exciting interpretation of what Jesus was up to, and how his first-century audience would have heard him.

Author : Susan Curtis
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0826213626

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A Consuming Faith by Susan Curtis Pdf

In A Consuming Faith, Susan Curtis analyzes the startling convergence of two events previously treated independently: the emergence of a modern consumer-oriented culture and the rise of the social gospel movement. By examining the lives and works of individuals who identified themselves as social gospelers, rather than just groups or individuals who fit a particular definition, Curtis is able to capture the very fluidity of the term social gospel as it was used. In addition to exploring the time in which the movement took shape, Curtis provides biographical sketches of traditional figures involved in various aspects of the social gospel movement such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington Gladden, and Josiah Strong alongside those of less-prominent figures like Charles Jefferson, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Charles Macfarland. Going beyond their roles in the movement, Curtis shows them to be sons and daughters, husbands and wives, and workers and citizens who experienced the vast changes in their world wrought by industrialization and class conflict even as they sought to define a meaningful religious life. The result of their quest was a redefinition of Protestantism that contributed to an evolving public discourse and culture. This groundbreaking study, now with a new preface by Curtis, provides an illuminating look at culture and religion as interdependent influences, and treats religious life as an integral part of American culture--not a sacred world apart from the secular. A Consuming Faith will be of interest to anyone who strives to understand not only the social and cultural history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also the origins of modern America.

Author : Walter Rauschenbusch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725208889

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Christianity and the Social Crisis by Walter Rauschenbusch Pdf

Author : Shailer Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015063163755

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The Social Gospel by Shailer Mathews Pdf

Author : Walter Rauschenbusch
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Theology for the Social Gospel by Walter Rauschenbusch Pdf

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861 – 1918) was a Christian theologian, Baptist pastor, and a leader of the Social Gospel movement. In A Theology for the Social Gospel, published the year before his death, Rauschenbusch offered a A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917), Rauschenbusch takes up the task of laying a theological foundation for the nascent movement.

Author : Fahey, Joseph J.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608338108

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Walter Rauschenbusch by Fahey, Joseph J. Pdf

Selected spiritual writings of Walter Rauschenbusch (1851-1918), a Baptist minister and theologian who was the primary voice of the Social Gospel movement in the early 20th century. His recovery of the social implications of Jesus' teaching on the Kingdom of God prefigured many elements of later liberation theology.

Author : Meredith Gould
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814647325

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The Social Media Gospel by Meredith Gould Pdf

If you are responsible for managing digital communications in your parish, staying current with trends in the rapidly changing world of social media can seem like an overwhelming task. Which social medium platforms make sense for your church community? How can you make them an effective tool for ministry? As a veteran social media expert, author, and sociologist, Meredith Gould has helped answer these questions and more in her best-selling book The Social Media Gospel. In this second edition, Gould provides an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide to digital ministry for those wishing to embrace new technologies to build community and deepen faith. In this expanded edition, Gould delivers new content with humor, helpful tips, and counsel anchored in practical experience. She focuses on key topics for effective church communication, including: • Building and ministering to online communities • Privacy and self-disclosure in the digital age • Integrating communications across digital platforms • Managing and monitoring social media • Faith storytelling with visual social media • Hashtag development and live-tweeting

Author : Gary Dorrien
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300231359

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Breaking White Supremacy by Gary Dorrien Pdf

The award–winning author of The New Abolition continues his history of black social gospel with this study of its influence on the Civil Rights movement. The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition that best describes him and other leaders of the civil rights movement has been strangely overlooked. In his latest book, Gary Dorrien continues to unearth the heyday and legacy of the black social gospel, a tradition with a shimmering history, a martyred central figure, and enduring relevance today. This part of the story centers around King and the mid-twentieth-century black church leaders who embraced the progressive, justice-oriented, internationalist social gospel from the beginning of their careers and fulfilled it, inspiring and leading America’s greatest liberation movement.

Author : Walter Rauschenbusch
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547129059

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The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Social Principles of Jesus" by Walter Rauschenbusch. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.