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'''Walter Rauschenbusch''' (1861-1918) an American theologian was a major leader of the [[Social Gospel]] movement, the religious side of the [[Progressive Movement]] in the United States.
His father, who came from a line of Lutheran ministgers in Germany, immigrated to Americas and became a Baptist. Walter was bilingual, and was very well educated in American and German schools. He taught church history at Rochester Theological Seminary (1902-1918).
==Further reading==
*Hopkins, Charles Howard. ''The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915.'' (1940), the standard history; [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=87098233 online edition]
* King, William McGuire. "History as Revelation" in the Theology of the Social Gospel," ''The Harvard Theological Review,'' Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 109-129 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0017-8160(198301)76%3A1%3C109%3A%22ARITT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M in JSTOR]
* Smith, Gary Scott. "To Reconstruct the World: Walter Rauschenbusch and Social Change," ''Fides et Historia'' (1991) 23:40-63
* Smucker, Donovan E. ''The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics'' 1994 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96989380 online edition]
*White, Ronald C., Jr. and C. Howard Hopkins. ''The Social Gospel. Religion and Reform in Changing America'' (1975).
===Primary sources===
*Rauschenbusch. ''A Theology for the Social Gospel'' (1917). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14075615 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Theology-Social-Gospel-Library-Theological/dp/0664257305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197517741&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
*Rauschenbusch. ''Christianity and the Social Crisis.'' (1907)
[[Category:Theologians]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Progressive Era]]
His father, who came from a line of Lutheran ministgers in Germany, immigrated to Americas and became a Baptist. Walter was bilingual, and was very well educated in American and German schools. He taught church history at Rochester Theological Seminary (1902-1918).
==Further reading==
*Hopkins, Charles Howard. ''The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915.'' (1940), the standard history; [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=87098233 online edition]
* King, William McGuire. "History as Revelation" in the Theology of the Social Gospel," ''The Harvard Theological Review,'' Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 109-129 [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0017-8160(198301)76%3A1%3C109%3A%22ARITT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M in JSTOR]
* Smith, Gary Scott. "To Reconstruct the World: Walter Rauschenbusch and Social Change," ''Fides et Historia'' (1991) 23:40-63
* Smucker, Donovan E. ''The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics'' 1994 [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=96989380 online edition]
*White, Ronald C., Jr. and C. Howard Hopkins. ''The Social Gospel. Religion and Reform in Changing America'' (1975).
===Primary sources===
*Rauschenbusch. ''A Theology for the Social Gospel'' (1917). [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=14075615 online edition]; also [http://www.amazon.com/Theology-Social-Gospel-Library-Theological/dp/0664257305/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197517741&sr=8-1 excerpt and text search]
*Rauschenbusch. ''Christianity and the Social Crisis.'' (1907)
[[Category:Theologians]]
[[Category:Baptists]]
[[Category:Progressive Era]]