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- What Was The Social Gospel?
- The Legacy of Walter Rauschenbusch
- Social Salvation and The Religious Left Today
- An Attractive Option?
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 churches, the social gospel emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age”capitalism. Movement leaders took Jesus’ me...
Rauschenbusch began his career in the 1880s as minister of an immigrant church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York. His 1907 book, “Christianity and the Social Crisis”asserted that religion’s chief purpose was to create the highest quality of life for all citizens. Rauschenbusch linked Christianity to emerging theories of democratic socialism...
King’s statement highlights the importance of the social gospel conceptof “social salvation” for today’s religious left. Although many of its primary leaders come out of liberal Protestant denominations, the religious left is not a monolithic movement. Its leaders include prominent clergy, such as the Lutheran minister Nadia Boltz-Weber as well as ...
Despite the public visibility of activists like Barber, some question whether the religious left can become a potent political force. Sociologist James Wellman observesthat often religious progressives lack the “social infrastructure that creates and sustains a social movement; its leaders are spiritual entrepreneurs rather than institution builder...
- Christopher H. Evans
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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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.
Origins. The date of southern gospel's establishment, as a distinct genre, is generally considered to be 1910. The year the first professional quartet was formed for the purpose of selling songbooks for the James D. Vaughan Music Publishing Company in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.
Jun 18, 2018 · Historians have posited several theories in an attempt to explain what many regard as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s radical departure, in the late 1960's, from his earlier, liberal framing of civil rights reform.
