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Although William Jennings Bryan did not identify with the leaders of the Social Gospel movement, he did campaign during both of his bids for the presidency in the 1890s on a call to improve the lives of working Americans. He lost both his races in what is, in retrospect, a conservative time.
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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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These leaders paved the way for the civil rights explosion of the 1950s and 1960s and helped to inspire America’s greatest liberation movement. 18 Notes: Leading white social gospel figures included Washington Gladden, Graham Taylor, George Herron, Jane Addams, Harry Ward, Vida Scudder, Francis McConnell, and the great Walter Rauschenbusch.
Jul 31, 2018 · The man at the center of the movement, and the leader whom these stories all reference, is the Rev. William J. Barber II, an African American minister from North Carolina who has been called the Martin Luther King Jr. of our time.
Jun 17, 2020 · How did the Jesus People Movement impact Christianity in America? Covered widely by secular society and the media. Led a resurgence of U.S. evangelicalism through young people.
As radical progressives fought to change conservative America, a group of Protestant ministers organized the Social Gospel movement to instill religious ethics into the business world. Congregational minister Washington Gladden started a ministry for working-class neighborhoods and favored sanctions to improve workers’ rights.
Jul 18, 2017 · While the social gospel produced many important figures, its most influential leader was a Baptist minister, Walter Rauschenbusch. The legacy of Walter Rauschenbusch. Rauschenbusch began his...
