Lanterna Rally

Author: William H. Brackney

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Published: 2018

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780881466782

The final book of this three-volume set brings together important texts of Walter Rauschenbush, most significantly an unpublished book, "Christianity Revolutionary" first begun in 1891-92. In addition, this volume contains Rauschenbusch's last major work, A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917). This answered the call for a serious theological underpinning of the social gospel. Volume III also includes three shorter publications of Rauschenbusch: "The Kingdom of God" defines one of his major principles, "The Value and Use of History" reveals the premises of his vocation, and "Why I am a Baptist'" is a series of editorials that provided a timely apologetic for Baptist principles. As with the first two volumes, a select correspondence section contains poetry, selections from a summer journal, and letters from Gerald Birney Smith, Vida Scudder, and William H. P. Faunce. The most extensive bibliography for Walter Rauschenbusch has been assembled in this volume as well and it includes a first-ever listing of archival resources from North American and European collections that will suggest and enable further investigation of Rauschenbusch. The textual content of Volume III begins with a Theological Introduction prepared by William H. Brackney eminent historical theologian of the Baptist movement. In his introduction, drawing upon hundreds of sources, Brackney accounts for American, English, and German influences on Rauschenbusch, including his famous "Kingdom", or "Basdeie" theology. Book jacket.