Search results
Aug 3, 2017 · Peter Wagner, a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation movement, referred to himself as a “super apostle,” because he was influential with a bunch of other apostles.
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.
- 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
Jan 18, 2020 · Rev. Earl Stallings, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama. These eight clergy members who signed the letter were not segregationists but moderates who preferred for the issue to be handled at the local level, rather than by outsiders (like Martin Luther King Jr.).
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 uplifted and thereby brought to Christ.
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.
Mar 5, 2015 · Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015. Christopher H. Evans. Article. Metrics. Get access. Cite. Rights & Permissions. Extract. In 1921, Shailer Mathews coined what became a classic, yet somewhat obtuse, definition of the social gospel in North American religious history.
