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The Social Gospel ... First English Edition
The Social Gospel Today
Author: Christopher Hodge Evans
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780664222529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributors explore how the theological tradition of the Social Gospel, born within the social and cultural dislocations of late 19th-century America, relates to the dislocations of the current American scene. The contributors argue that America's only indigenous theological tradition remains powerfully relevant to mainline churches and to the scholars who work out of these institutions.
A Theology for the Social Gospel
The Social Gospel in American Religion
Author: Christopher H Evans
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2019-07-16
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1479884499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement. The global crises of child labor, alcoholism and poverty were all brought to our attention through the social gospel movement. Its impact on American society makes it one of the most influential developments in American religious history. Christopher H. Evans traces the development of the social gospel in American Protestantism, and illustrates how the religious idealism of the movement also rose up within Judaism and Catholicism. Contrary to the works of previous historians, Evans demonstrates how the presence of the social gospel continued in American culture long after its alleged demise following World War I. Evans reveals the many aspects of the social gospel and their influence on a range of social movements during the twentieth century, culminating with the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It also explores the relationship between the liberal social gospel of the early twentieth century and later iterations of social reform in late twentieth century evangelicalism. The Social Gospel in American Religion considers an impressive array of historical figures including Washington Gladden, Emil Hirsch, Frances Willard, Reverdy Ransom, Walter Rauschenbusch, Stephen Wise, John Ryan, Harry Emerson Fosdick, A.J. Muste, Georgia Harkness, and Benjamin Mays. It demonstrates how these figures contributed to the shape of the social gospel in America, while arguing that the movement’s legacy lies in its profound influence on broader traditions of liberal-progressive political reform in American history.
The Social Gospel of Jesus
Author: Bruce J. Malina
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780800632472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholars are agreed that the central metaphor in Jesus' proclamation was the kingdom of God. But what did that phrase mean in the first-century Palestinian world of Jesus? Since it is a political metaphor, what did Jesus envision as the political import of his message? Since this is tied to the political economy, how was that structured in Jesus' day? How is the violence of Jesus' Mediterranean world addressed in the kingdom? And how does "self-denial" fit into Jesus' agenda? Malina tackles these questions in a very accessible way, providing a social-scientific analysis, meaning that he brings to bear explicit models and a comparative approach toward an exciting interpretation of what Jesus was up to, and how his first-century audience would have heard him.
The Social Gospel
Author: Shailer Mathews
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9781230329215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X WEALTH It would indeed be strange if we should find Jesus silent regarding wealth. His interest in humanity and all that pertains to humanity must have forced him to a consideration of the subject. Altogether the largest proportion of human endeavor is devoted to economic affairs. Reduce the hours of labor however we may, the great object of life on the part of most men is to earn enough to enable them to keep living. There is too, the widespread ambition to get rich. It is probably true that this, as much as any other motive in life, lies beneath the social evolution of society. It is not true, as some insist, that the economic are the only motives operative in human history; but they are certainly so prominent and so powerful as to be of first importance. Now, Jesus, in teaching and living the gospel, was never far from life. He saw the poor all about him, and saw the rich turning from him. He himself had been obliged to earn a living for himself and, if tradition is to be believed, for his mother and his brothers and sisters. He saw too, how hard it is for men who are seeking wealth to make the things of spiritual value supreme. And for that reason he spoke about wealth perhaps more than about any other subject, unless it was the kingdom of God and the wickedness of religious hypocrisy. In order to understand his position, it is necessary, first of all, to get his point of view, for that will be that of the gospel itself. Clearly enough his interest in wealth is not that of the political economist. The modern world would be slow to dispense with those patient men of science who study the economic aspects of human life. All over the world we find them collecting the material on which they may base their discussions of the...
A Consuming Faith
Author: Susan Curtis
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780826213624
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In A Consuming Faith, Susan Curtis analyzes the startling convergence of two events previously treated independently: the emergence of a modern consumer-oriented culture and the rise of the social gospel movement. By examining the lives and works of individuals who identified themselves as social gospelers, rather than just groups or individuals who fit a particular definition, Curtis is able to capture the very fluidity of the term social gospel as it was used. In addition to exploring the time in which the movement took shape, Curtis provides biographical sketches of traditional figures involved in various aspects of the social gospel movement such as Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington Gladden, and Josiah Strong alongside those of less-prominent figures like Charles Jefferson, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Charles Macfarland. Going beyond their roles in the movement, Curtis shows them to be sons and daughters, husbands and wives, and workers and citizens who experienced the vast changes in their world wrought by industrialization and class conflict even as they sought to define a meaningful religious life. The result of their quest was a redefinition of Protestantism that contributed to an evolving public discourse and culture. This groundbreaking study, now with a new preface by Curtis, provides an illuminating look at culture and religion as interdependent influences, and treats religious life as an integral part of American culture--not a sacred world apart from the secular. A Consuming Faith will be of interest to anyone who strives to understand not only the social and cultural history of America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but also the origins of modern America.
The Social Gospel and the New Era
The Social Gospel
