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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Social Gospel leaders such as George Herron saw the terrible living conditions of workers and their families in urban areas as evidence of the beginning of a new millennium in which Christians were called to build the Kingdom of God.
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The social gospel’s origins are often traced to the rise of late 19th-century urban industrialization, immediately following the Civil War. Largely, but not exclusively, rooted in Protestant churches, the social gospel emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age”capitalism. Movement leaders took Jesus’ me...
Rauschenbusch began his career in the 1880s as minister of an immigrant church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York. His 1907 book, “Christianity and the Social Crisis”asserted that religion’s chief purpose was to create the highest quality of life for all citizens. Rauschenbusch linked Christianity to emerging theories of democratic socialism...
King’s statement highlights the importance of the social gospel conceptof “social salvation” for today’s religious left. Although many of its primary leaders come out of liberal Protestant denominations, the religious left is not a monolithic movement. Its leaders include prominent clergy, such as the Lutheran minister Nadia Boltz-Weber as well as ...
Despite the public visibility of activists like Barber, some question whether the religious left can become a potent political force. Sociologist James Wellman observesthat often religious progressives lack the “social infrastructure that creates and sustains a social movement; its leaders are spiritual entrepreneurs rather than institution builder...
- Christopher H. Evans
The Social Gospel movement peaked in the early 20th century, but scholars debate over when the movement began to decline, with some asserting that the destruction and trauma caused by the First World War left many disillusioned with the Social Gospel's ideals while others argue that the war stimulated the Social Gospelers' reform efforts.
By the 1920s, many Social Gospel leaders had distanced themselves from the organized working classes. They either accepted new arrangements for harmonizing the interests of labor and capital or took their left-leaning political ideals underground.
- Janine Giordano Drake
- 2017
In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. acknowledged his intellectual debt to a movement in American religious history commonly called the “social gospel.”. Citing the impact of the early twentieth-century church leader Walter Rauschenbusch, King noted that Rauschenbusch’s social gospel had pushed Christian theology beyond a concern for individual ...
Jan 1, 2007 · The Protestant response to the growing individualism‐communitarian debate going on in political, economic, philosophical, and religious circles took the form of the Social Gospel. The Social Gospel sought theological legitimacy in and gave hermeneutical primacy to the doctrine of the kingdom of God.
