Bøger af Walter Rauschenbusch

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Walter Rauschenbusch is credited as the fountainhead of the social gospel in America. An American Baptist minister, Rauschenbusch was the ""prophet"" of a movement that created a watershed in American religious thought. This first volume of his selected writings contains reproductions of the original texts of Christianity and the Social Crisis and For God and the People.

A Theology for the Social Gospel is undoubtedly Walter Rauschenbusch's most enduring work. It is here that Rauschenbusch, the father of the social gospel in the United States, articulates the theological roots of social activism that surged forth from mainline Protestant churches in the early part of the twentieth century. Skillfully examining...

Walter Rauschenbusch was the primary architect of the Social Gospel, a movement that responded to the changing social and industrial conditions in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book, he presents his path-breaking and prophetic interpretation of Jesus and the kingdom and his understanding of...

Offers a comprehensive study of the relationship between Christianity and social reform - most specifically for political and economic justice. A pioneering work of what became known as "public theology", this book asks "How can the fundamental structure of society be conformed to the moral demands of the Christian spirit?"