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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...
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May 15, 2021 · Consequently, social gospel leaders supported legislation for an eight-hour work day, the abolition of child labor and government regulation of business monopolies. While the social gospel...
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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 12, 2018 · This afternoon the Southern Baptist Convention— the largest Protestant body in the United States and the largest Baptist denomination in the world—elected 45-year-old pastor J. D. Greear as its 62nd president, the youngest man to hold the office in 38 years.
Josiah Strong. 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 ...
May 5, 2023 · Walter Rauschenbusch, the Baptist icon of the Social Gospel movement, refused for most of his career to employ the term “Social Gospel.” There is no legitimately Christian non -social Gospel, he protested; why should he concede otherwise by adding a redundant adjective?
Feb 26, 2024 · In her account of labor reform and Christian socialism in the early 20th-century United States, Janine Giordano Drake claims that this is precisely what the leaders of the social gospel movement did.