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Josiah Strong was one of the founders of the Social Gospel movement that sought to apply Protestant religious principles to solve the social ills brought on by industrialization, urbanization and immigration. He served as General Secretary (1886–1898) of the Evangelical Alliance for the United States, a coalition of Protestant missionary groups.
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.
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Lyman Abbott, American Congregationalist minister and a leading advocate of the Social Gospel movement. Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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
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.
Jul 18, 2017 · Its leaders include prominent clergy, such as the Lutheran minister Nadia Boltz-Weber as well as academics such as Cornel West. Some of the movement’s major figures, notably Rev. Jim Wallis, are...
May 15, 2021 · While the social gospel produced many important figures, its most influential leader was a Baptist minister, Walter Rauschenbusch. . The legacy of Walter Rauschenbusch. Rauschenbusch...
