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The Social Gospel theme is reflected in the novels ''In His Steps'' (1897) and ''The Reformer'' (1902), the creations of the Congregational minister [[Charles Sheldon]], who coined the motto "What would Jesus do?"  Sheldon was committed to Christian Socialism and identified strongly with the Social Gospel movement. [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the leading early theologians of the Social Gospel in the United States, indicated that his theology had been inspired by Sheldon's novels.

The Social Gospel theme is reflected in the novels ''In His Steps'' (1897) and ''The Reformer'' (1902), the creations of the Congregational minister [[Charles Sheldon]], who coined the motto "What would Jesus do?"  Sheldon was committed to Christian Socialism and identified strongly with the Social Gospel movement. [[Walter Rauschenbusch]], one of the leading early theologians of the Social Gospel in the United States, indicated that his theology had been inspired by Sheldon's novels.

[[John A. Ryan]]'s ''[[Living wage|A Living Wage]]'' also emerged as a cognate of the movement.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5zCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|last1=Lippy|first1=Charles|title=Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0765601513|pages=127}}</ref>

[[John A. Ryan]]'s ''[[Living wage|A Living Wage]]'' also emerged as a cognate of the movement,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJ5zCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA127|last1=Lippy|first1=Charles|title=Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-0765601513|pages=127}}</ref> as did [[Jacob Riis]]' ''How the Other Half Lives''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UA8CkgHfwPAC&pg=PA57|last1=Cosco|first1=Joseph|title=Imagining Italians: The Clash of Romance and Race in American Perceptions, 1880-1910|date=2012|publisher=SUNY Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0791486627|pages=57}}</ref>

==The 21st Century==

==The 21st Century==