The Social Gospel: Religion and Reform in Changing AmericaTemple University Press, 1976 - 306 pages Author note: Ronald C. White, Jr. is Chaplain and Assistant Professor of Religion at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington. >P>C. Howard Hopkins is Professor of History Emeritus at Rider College and Director of the John R. Mott Biography Project. He is the author of The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Christian Abolitionism | 14 |
Christian Socialism 26 230 | 26 |
An American Prophet | 36 |
Introduction | 51 |
Justice for Labor | 63 |
Movements toward the Kingdom | 70 |
Voices from the New South | 80 |
Socialism as Christian Strategy | 168 |
Progressivism as Christian Strategy | 179 |
Church Agencies for Social Action | 190 |
An Ecumenical Movement | 197 |
Catholicism and Social Questions | 214 |
American Jews and the Kingdom | 230 |
Introduction | 243 |
Decline or Revival? | 259 |
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