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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). | 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== | ==Further reading== | ||
| + | * Dorrien, Gary. ''The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity 1900-1950'' (2003) [http://www.amazon.com/Making-American-Liberal-Theology-Modernity/dp/0664223559/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260106987&sr=1-excerpt and text search], ch 2 | ||
*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] | *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] | * 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] | ||
Revision as of 13:45, December 6, 2009
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
- Dorrien, Gary. The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity 1900-1950 (2003) and text search, ch 2
- Hopkins, Charles Howard. The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915. (1940), the standard history; 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 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 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). online edition; also excerpt and text search
- Rauschenbusch. Christianity and the Social Crisis. (1907)