Social Gospel was a prominent Protestant movement in the late 19th and early to mid 20th century that attempted to apply Christian principles to social problems. Part of Christian "modernism" with a strong emphasis on social justice the movement was a rival to evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.
In the United States prior to World War I, the Social Gospel was the religious wing of U.S. "progressive" politics which had the aim of combating injustice, suffering and poverty in society.
Sometimes called "Christian socialism" the movement was especially influential in Canada and led many ministers to become active in the socialist movement in the form of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and later the New Democratic Party. Social Gospel is still influential in Canada's United Church and in the Anglican Church but has less influence in the United States. It also remains influential among "Christian socialist" circles in Britain in the Church of England, Methodist and Calvinist movements.
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Short item on the social gospel movement with profiles of leading figures Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch.
Essay on the movement from Spartacus Schoolnet.
Hymn favoured by Christian socialists and the social gospel movement in Britain and North America.
Ronald Rolheiser argues that the churches have been, and still are, at those places with the poor where nobody else wants to be.
Information about the Social Gospel tradition of Christian socialism.
Selections from Practical Christianity, An Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism by Adin Ballou, edited by Lynn Gordon Hughes.
Discussion guide to the book by Richard S. Gilbert.
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Presenting texts and especially cartoons from The Ram's Horn, an interdenominational social gospel magazine of the 1890s in the United States.
Short discussion of the conflict between social gospel and evangelical Christianity.
Historical essay on the Christian educational movement named after the resort in New York state.
Anglican timeline.
Irving Hexham responds to John Redekopp in this Christian Week article.
(December 17, 1996)
Historical essay on the Christian educational movement named after the resort in New York state.
Presenting texts and especially cartoons from The Ram's Horn, an interdenominational social gospel magazine of the 1890s in the United States.
Essay on the movement from Spartacus Schoolnet.
Hymn favoured by Christian socialists and the social gospel movement in Britain and North America.
Discussion guide to the book by Richard S. Gilbert.
[PDF]
Short item on the social gospel movement with profiles of leading figures Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch.
Anglican timeline.
Information about the Social Gospel tradition of Christian socialism.
Ronald Rolheiser argues that the churches have been, and still are, at those places with the poor where nobody else wants to be.
Short discussion of the conflict between social gospel and evangelical Christianity.
Selections from Practical Christianity, An Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism by Adin Ballou, edited by Lynn Gordon Hughes.
Irving Hexham responds to John Redekopp in this Christian Week article.
(December 17, 1996)
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