1. Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel

2010 ◽  
pp. 3-28
Keyword(s):  
Social Gospel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch ◽  
The Subject

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.”

The Social Gospel and the Failure of Racial Reform, 1877–1898

1977 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Luker
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S

While American Society was coming apart in the 1960s, an impressive array of historians rallied to condemn what Rayford Logan called “the astigmatism of the social gospel” in race relations. Preoccupied by the ills of urban-industrial disorder, they suggested, the prophets of post-Reconstruction social Christianity either ignored or betrayed the Negro and left his fortunes in the hands of a hostile white South. The indictment of the social gospel on this count hinged upon the racism of Josiah Strong, the faithlessness of Lyman Abbott, and the complicity in silence of Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the others.

scholarly journals The Social Gospel and Socialism: A Comparison of the Thought of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob H. Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Walter Rauschenbusch ◽  
Rapid Industrialization ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Socialist Movement

For American Protestants who were sensitive to the profound social disruptions associated with rapid industrialization and urbanization in the late nineteenth century, the twin discoveries of the “alienation” of the working class from Protestant churches and of a rising and vibrant socialist movement caused much consternation and anxious soul-searching. Socialism offered not only a radical critique of American political and economic institutions; it also offered the zeal, symbols, and sense of participation in a world-transforming cause often associated with Christianity itself. The religious alienation of the working class and the appeal of socialism were often causally linked in the minds of socially-conscious Protestant leaders.

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.

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