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Social Gospel
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Social Gospel is a movement who's impact reached far beyond the era that created it. • I'd like to give a shout-out to encyclopedia.com for a thorough but simple explanation: • SOCIAL GOSPEL was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. The social gospel differentiated itself from earlier Christian reform movements by prioritizing social salvation over individual salvation. Although the ministers and activists of the social gospel based their appeals on liberal theology, which emphasized the immanence of God and the doctrine of Incarnation and valued good works over creeds, they usually showed more interest in social science than in theology. Believing that laissez-faire capitalism's understanding of labor as a commodity and its sole reliance on mechanisms of supply and demand to determine wages and allocate resources was un-Christian, social gospel advocates supported the labor movement and called for an interventionist welfare state. They differed from secular activists in that their ultimate vision was not just a more equitable balance of power within society, but a Christianized society in which cooperation, mutual respect, and compassion replaced greed, competition, and conflict among social and economic classes. Despite all of their efforts to reach the working class and to cooperate with the labor movement, though, the social gospel failed to reach far beyond its middle-class liberal Protestant milieu. Ultimately, the greatest achievement of the social gospel was to prepare the ground of middle-class America for progressivism. • Lectures About Social Gospel founders: • • Walter Rauschenbusch and Gustavo Guti... • • Roger Prentice The Impact of Walter... • • Washington Gladden • Other Great MMM content: • • Definitions: Radical the good the bad... • • Definitions: Sound Bite, Not the Whol... • • Definitions: Ethnicity, not race, not... • • Night Classes: Urbanization Part 2 an... • • Night Classes: Urbanization Part 1
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