“History as Revelation” in the Theology of the Social Gospel

1983 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
William McGuire King
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Rational Application ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
Religious Ideals

Historical studies of the American social gospel have concentrated on the social and economic viewpoint of the movement. Such a focus is understandable since the fundamental premise of the social gospel was the belief that social change should be controlled and directed through the rational application of religious ideals. Scholarly interest in the movement has thus naturally gravitated towards questions of practical import: how the social gospel galvanized the churches to social action; how it challenged dominant political assumptions; how it contributed to the success of the progressive movement; how it helped to promote cooperative social ideals and a limited type of Christian socialism; and how it struggled with the problem of finding a realistic political philosophy.

Prophetic Suffering and Black Internationalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Dorrien
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Howard University ◽  
The Social ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
Long Time

The generation of black social gospel leaders who began their careers in the 1920s assumed the social justice politics and liberal theology of the social gospel from the beginning of their careers. Mordecai Johnson became the leading example by espousing racial justice militancy, Christian socialism, Gandhian revolutionary internationalism, and anti-anti-Communism as the long-time (and long embattled) president of Howard University

Walter Rauschenbusch and Education for Reform

1967 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-469
Author(s):  
John R. Aiken
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch

While it is true that the social gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch is more than the religious strain of the progressive movement, there is no doubt that he sought a christianized social order, one in “harmony with the ethical convictions which we identify with Christ.” And he was much concerned with the Kingdom of God, the “growing perfection in the collective life of humanity, in our laws, in the customs of society, in the institutions for education, and of the administration of mercy.”

scholarly journals TRANSFORMASI STRUKTUR SOSIAL DALAM PEMANFAATAN RPTRA DHARMA SUCI JAKARTA UTARA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sugeng Wahjudi
Keyword(s):  
Communication Network ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Authority Structure ◽  
The Social

<p><em>The focus of RPTRA's activities reflects services for children and community services to become a community center that functions as a center of interaction and is used by all elements of society from various age groups. This research is an advanced stage of previous research on the relationship of RPTRA managers. The communication network that is built into the use of the RPTRA can be utilized for the development of institutional components that are socio-economic. By using Max Webber's instrumental rationality approach, this study can identify the social changes that have been formed. This study will provide a description relating to changes in knowledge, attitudes and actions of the people who use RPTRA. Changes that arise from individual RPTRA users (mothers) are driven by actions based on value orientation. Their actions involved in activities at RPTRA were not driven by instrumental orientation (to obtain economic benefits) or traditional orientation (because of tradition - driven by the authority structure) In general it can be concluded that RPTRA was able to take a good role. RPTRA is not a material space that distributes materials / materials to make a transformation of the social structure of society (change in social action). The results of the study indicate the formation of rationality in the use of RPTRA if it is associated with user social actions and program activities that put RPTRA as a center in building social relations for their local communities and social change.</em></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>RPTRA<strong>,</strong></em><em> communication network</em><em>, </em><em>social change, social actions</em><em>.</em></p>

The Emergence of Social Gospel Radicalism: The Methodist Case

1981 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
William McGuire King
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch ◽  
Social Liberalism ◽  
Precise Relationship ◽  
Historical Periods

What happened to the social gospel impulse after World War I? Recent historians have demonstrated that many reformers did not bid farewell to reform in the 1920s.1 In the case of Protestant social liberalism, however, the precise relationship between postwar social action and the prewar social gospel movement requires further clarification. Was the former merely a continuation of the latter? Such a question is currently difficult to answer since few major studies of the social gospel bridge both historical periods. Indeed, the death or retirement by 1918 of so many early leaders of the social gospel movement, particularly Washington Gladden, Josiah Strong, and Walter Rauschenbusch, leaves the impression that an era had come to a close.

William Dwight Porter Bliss's Christian Socialism

1978 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard B. Dressner
Keyword(s):  
Social Gospel ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch ◽  
Christian Socialism

Whatever else may be said about the Reverend William Dwight Porter Bliss, his reform energy was indefatigable. From the Haymarket Affair until the Red Scare, he was instrumental in organizing, researching, editing, publishing and lecturing on behalf of the coming of God's Kingdom. Along with Walter Rauschenbusch and George Herron, Bliss was certainly one of the most prominent spokesmen for the left wing of the Social Gospel.

Individualism and Progressivism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Klosko
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Progressive Movement ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Laissez Faire

The influence of strict laissez faire ideas in American politics around the turn of the twentieth century, and responses by thinkers in the Progressive movement, especially members of the Social Gospel. Theodore Roosevelt’s similar political ideas.

Hume’s Political Philosophy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Contract Theory ◽  
Social Contract Theory ◽  
Evolutionary Account ◽  
Cautious Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Stability

Although David Hume never produced a single comprehensive work that encapsulated his views on politics, his various writings address a broad range of topics of relevance to political philosophy. He critiques the social contract theory of Hobbes and Locke, and he offers an alternative, evolutionary account of the origins of government. Hume sees all governments as the result of a struggle between authority and liberty, with the best of them achieving a balance between the two by implementing systems of “general laws.” Hume’s cautious approach to social change may fairly be called conservative. However, he is willing to endorse efforts at gradual reform when these efforts do not threaten the stability of the society. His legacy for modern political philosophy remains contested.

scholarly journals Establishing Precedents: Women’s Student Activism and Social Change in the (Canadian) National Union of Students, 1972-1979

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Roy Moses
Keyword(s):  
Women Students ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Action Theory ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
National Union ◽  
The Social

I provide an account of young women’s activism in the (Canadian) National Union of Students from the time that the national student organization reformed in 1972 to the signing of the National Union of Students’ (NUS) Declaration of the Rights of the Woman Student in 1979. I focus on the problems NUS women faced, the solutions and organization structures they devised and how they helped shape and transform the social organization of NUS. Through the lens of social action theory, I identify the social agency of women students in student movements, the knowledge of which has implications for understanding women’s movements and social change processes more generally. By uncovering the social activism of women students, this work makes an important contribution to the historiography of 1970s Canadian women’s movements, which so far has ignored young women’s contributions to the demarginalization of women and the production of society.

MENELUSURI JEJAK DAN KIPRAH KIAI MOHAMMAD HASAN GENGGONG; DALAM MEMBANGUN KEPEMIMPINAN SPRITUAL-TRANSFORMATIF

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fauzi ◽  
Chusnul Muali
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Transformative Leadership ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
School Students ◽  
Value System ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Islamic Science

Pesantren and social value system is the result of constructing kiai's thoughts and social actions as an inseparable entity. This study aims to interpret the role and social action of kiai Moh Hasan, both as a fighter (al-haiah al-jihaadi li'izzi al-Islaami wal muslimin) in the community as well as guidance and guidance for the community (al-haiah al ta 'awuny wa al takafuly wal al ittijaahi) and teaching in educational institutions (al-haiah al ta'lim wa al-tarbiyah), significantly contributes greatly to the social realities of society in Indonesia. Portrait of central figure kiai Moh Hasan can not be separated from the depth of his field of Islamic science, simplicity, kezuhudan, struggle, sincerity and generosity. This view, not only recognized among the people around the boarding school, students and colleagues, but also spread in some areas in Indonesia. The fame of kiai Moh Hasan among scholars, habaib and society has many karamah and some other privileges, not even a few from the social recognition of kiai Moh Hasan Genggong, because the kiai are believed to have closeness with God, thus perceived as auliya'Allah. Thus the role and social actions of the kiai above, gave birth to the value system, so as to influence and move the social action of other individuals. The internalization of the aforementioned values becomes social capital in building a spiritual-based transformative leadership, as a strong leadership model and conducts various changes in the social field, by transforming the value of the ethical values.

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