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Walter Rauschenbusch
Rauschenbusch, Walter - rouˈshənboosh, 1861–1918, American clergyman, b. Rochester, N.Y. In 1886 he was ordained and began work among German immigrants as pastor of the Second German Baptist Church in New York City. He studied (1891–92) economics and theology at the Univ. of Berlin and industrial relations in England, where he became acquainted with the Fabian Society Read More...
Rauschenbusch, Walter - rouˈshənboosh, 1861–1918, American clergyman, b. Rochester, N.Y. In 1886 he was ordained and began work among German immigrants as pastor of the Second German Baptist Church in New York City. He studied (1891–92) economics and theology at the Univ. of Berlin and industrial relations in England, where he became acquainted with the Fabian Society. In 1902 he was appointed professor of church history at Rochester Theological Seminary. He was a leading figure in the Social Gospel movement, which sought to rectify economic and social injustice. His writings include Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Christianizing the Social Order (1912), The Social Principles of Jesus (1916), and A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright© 2004, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. |
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The Character of God: Recovering the Lost Literary Power of American Protestantism (Chap. Nine "The Social Gospel and Its Critics: Walter Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, J. Gresham Machen")
by Thomas E. Jenkins. 280 pgs.
Educated people have become bereft of sophisticated ways to develop their religious inclinations. A major reason for this is that theology has become vague and dull. In The Character of God, author Thomas E. Jenkins maintains that Protestant theology became boring by the late nineteenth century because the depictions of God as a character in theology became boring. He shows how in the early nineteenth century, American Protestant theologians downplayed biblical depictions of God's emotional complexity and refashioned his character according to their own notions, stressing emotional singularity. These notions came from many sources, but the major influences were the neoclassical and sentimental literary styles of characterization dominant at the time. The serene benevolence of neoclassicism and the tender sympathy of sentimentalism may have made God appealing in the mid-1800s, but by the end of the century, these styles had lost much of their cultural power and increasingly came to seem flat and vague. Despite this, both liberal and conservative theologians clung to these characterizations of God throughout the twentieth century. Jenkins argues that a way out of this impasse can be found in romanticism, the literary style of characterization that supplanted neoclassicism and sentimentalism and dominated American literary culture throughout the twentieth century. Romanticism emphasized emotional complexity and resonated with biblical depictions of God. A few maverick religious writers-- such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, W. G. T. Shedd, and Horace Bushnell--did devise emotionally complex characterizations of God and in some cases drew directly from romanticism. But their strange and sometimes shocking depictions of God were largely forgotten in the twentieth century. s use "theological" as a pejorative term, implying that an argument is needlessly Jenkins urges a reassessment of their work and a greaterin understanding of the relationship between theology and literature. Recovering the lost literary power of American Protestantism, he claims, will make the character of God more compelling and help modern readers appreciate the peculiar power of the biblical characterization of God.
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Personalities in Social Reform (Chap. II "The Minister as Social Reformer: Walter Rauschenbusch")
by G. Bromley Oxnam. 178 pgs.
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The Paradox of Progressive Thought (Chap. X "Walter Rauschenbusch: Prophet")
by David W. Noble. 272 pgs.
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The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928 (Chap. 4 "Walter Rauschenbusch: The Social Gospel")
by Otis L. Graham. 386 pgs.
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The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915 (Chap. XIII "Walter Rauschenbusch Formulates the Social Gospel")
by Charles Howard Hopkins. 352 pgs.
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Christian Ethics and Political Economy in North America: A Critical Analysis ("The Theology of the Social Gospel: Walter Rauschenbusch" begins on p. 22)
by P. Travis Kroeker. 201 pgs.
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Deity and Domination: Images of God and the State in the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries ("Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel" begins on p. 150)
by David Nicholls. 321 pgs.
This book explores the relations between Christianity and politics, examines the analogy between divine and civil government and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century.
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Philosophers and Religious Leaders ("Rauschenbusch, Walter: Leader of the Social Gospel Movement 1861-1918" begins on p. 161)
by Christian D. Von Dehsen. 248 pgs.
How did Elijah Muhammad's establishment of the Nation of Islam affect the civil rights movement in the United States? Philosophers and Religious Leaders answers that question and others as it presents 200 leaders whose lives and work have greatly influenced the world we live in today. Profiles include: Muhammad Abduh--architect of Islamic modernism. Mary Daly-- influential feminist theologian and philosopher. Mary Baker Eddy--founder of Christian Science. Mencius (Meng K'o)--Confucian moral philosopher and interpreter. Shang Yang--Chinese philosopher of legalist school.
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