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Washington Gladden and Lyman Abbott
- The Social Gospel was especially promulgated among liberal Protestant ministers, including Washington Gladden and Lyman Abbott, and was shaped by the persuasive works of Charles Monroe Sheldon (In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?) and Walter Rauschenbusch (Christianity and the Social Crisis).
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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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In his personal life, Sheldon was committed to Christian socialism and identified strongly with the Social Gospel movement. Walter Rauschenbusch, one of the leading early theologians of the Social Gospel in the United States, indicated that his theology had been inspired by Sheldon's novels.
One of the most prominent was Walter Rauschenbusch, a German-American who pastored a church in the Hell’s Kitchen district of New York in the late nineteenth century. In Christianity and the Social Crisis, Rauschenbusch traced the social gospel back to the lives of the Hebrew prophets.
May 21, 2018 · Social Gospel in the Nineteenth Century. Washington Gladden was the first person to formulate the ideas of the social gospel. After failing to have the definite conversion experience required by his family's orthodox Calvinist faith, Gladden discovered liberal theology.
Jan 4, 2023 · Walter Rauschenbusch, likely the most well-known leader of the social gospel movement, published a book in 1917 entitled A Theology for the Social Gospel. In it, he outlined his belief—and the belief of many social gospel adherents—that the gospel was ultimately about social reform.
Gladden (1836-1918) is considered to be one of the foundational figures of what came to be known as the Social Gospel movement in the United States. Gladden raises our central question in many ways: “Is this a Chris-tian nation? Does it possess a Christian character?
Both Jane Addams, one of the founders of Hull House, and W.E.B. DuBois, the great black social activist, were active in social surveying in the 1890s. But the social survey had its greatest moment in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
