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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 ...
The Movement was considered a major success and reshaped the landscape of revivalism. President Woodrow Wilson The heyday of the Protestant influence in the Progressive Era was in the first half of the second decade of the twentieth century. Progressive social Christians were especially important in the national elections of 1912 and 1916.
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This wavering on principles produced complicated and sometimes tense relationships among union leaders, workers, and Social Gospel leaders. Elements of the Social Gospel movement have carried even into the 21st century, leading some historians to challenge the idea that the movement died with the close of the Great War.
- Janine Giordano Drake
- 2017
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 application of the biblical principles of charity and justice .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The labor unrest and bloody strikes of the late 1800s provided a most noticeable occasion of churches becoming involved in the social gospel. By 1914 two million workers had joined the American Federation of Labor, but the churches, being largely controlled by business interests, at first opposed this movement.
The Social Gospel as a Grassroots Movement. Wendy J. Deichmann. grassroots movement of laity and clergy in the aftermath of the Civil The social gospel War. During this era, movement American society faced in extreme the levels United of social States began as a faith-based, instability resulting not only from wartime trauma and loss, but also.
Social Gospel. The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war.
