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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...
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May 15, 2021 · 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 ...
Jul 31, 2018 · According to many histories of the topic, these social gospelers were white, at least until the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his fellow civil rights activists revived the social gospel movement in the 1950s and 1960s after a four-decades-long slump. Gary Dorrien’s new book tells a slightly different story. In Breaking White Supremacy ...
May 16, 2017 · NASHVILLE (BP) — Theologians of all ideological stripes agree Walter Rauschenbusch was a key figure in 20th-century Baptist history and that his 1917 book “A Theology for the Social Gospel” marked an important juncture in the social gospel tradition. But students of theology are divided 100 years later on whether Rauschenbusch (1861-1918 ...
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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.
Apr 4, 2017 · A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement. The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty were all brought to our attention through the social gospel movement. Its impact on American society makes it one of the most influential developments in American religious history. Christopher H. Evans traces the development of the social gospel in American ...
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.
