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Social Gospel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The movement applied Christian ethics to social pr...
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Walter Rauschenbusch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Stephen M. Crotts, Campus Minister ... Tired of nominal religion, angry over stale and uninspired preaching, alarmed over social injustice, Wesley began the Methodist movement. His street corner preaching struck fire in the hearts of common people. His writings began to feed and discipline and inform peoples’ faith.
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The former Arkansas governor and ordained Baptist minister speaks the language of Christian Evangelicals on social issues, but his concern for the poor means he's willing to spend more than fiscal conservatives would like.
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The READER'S COMPANION TO AMERICAN HISTORY mentions three leaders of the Social Gospel movement: Washington Gladden, who "sympathized with workers and urged them to seek unity in Christianity," William Dwight Porter Bliss, who worked with the Knights of Labor and Socialist party, and Walter Rauschenbusch, a New York...
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Walter Rauschenbusch was the primary theologian of the Social Gospel movement of the first two decades of the twentieth century. ... The Political and Religious Context of the Social Gospel. The excesses of Victorianism gave rise to a political situation many citizens and politicians found intolerable.
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The Social Gospel was an early 20th century Protestant Christian movement which placed its emphasis on the application of Christian principles to society's problems. Until this time, most Protestant ministers did not do much to address any of the growing problems of industrial society.
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