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Josiah Strong, from Book News, 1893. Josiah Strong (April 14, 1847 – June 26, 1916) was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor, and author. He was a leader of the Social Gospel movement, calling for social justice and combating social evils. He supported missionary work so that all races could be improved and uplifted and thereby ...
meant that the religious leaders of the two races shared a theolog-ical perspective based on individualism at odds with a movement known as social gospel that saw sin and salvation in terms of a more collective process reflective of society as a whole. In the af-termath of the riot, the few black and white ministers in Atlanta
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Jun 7, 2016 · R. Albert Mohler Jr. (age 33) meets in his office with Carl F. H. Henry (age 80) and Billy Graham (age 74) in October 1993 as Mohler is inaugurated as ninth president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. A portrait of James Petigru Boyce (1827-1888), the first president of Southern Seminary, hangs above them on the wall.
Woodrow Wilson had studied under the Social Gospel leader (and economist) Richard T. Ely at Johns Hopkins in the 1880s, and he represented the sensibility of the mainstream Protestant churches in his approach to reform.
Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. Advocates of the movement interpreted the kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through charity and justice.
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While educational controversies remained at the fore for the Christian Right, an additional conflict foreshadowed the quarrels that would later help define the movement, especially in the South. In January 1977 the Dade County (Florida) Commissioners voted 5–3 to approve an ordinance that prohibited discrimination against homosexuals in ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Evans’s book tells the story of how the FCC came to be a national leader in the movement for racial equality, including how it pushed churches to take more progressive positions on race and helped to lay the groundwork for later, more well-known efforts like King’s.
