Social Gospel Issues Christianity

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. 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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• - Historical resources on the Christian education movement.
  
• - Background article from the companion site to PBS' American Experience episode on the Scope's Monkey Trial.
  
• - Article by Sewell Hall on the social gospel and its implications for the church.
  
• - Information on the educational movement influenced b social gospel.
  
• - Speeches by the British Labour MP on the topic of faith and politics.
  
• - Christian doctrine and practice is examined with respect to the common ownership of property.
  
• - Brief definition from AllRefer Encyclopedia.
  
• - The excesses of the Victorian age gave foundation to a number of important political and religious trends that which converged to give rise to the Social Gospel.
  
• - Book review by David Jeremy in the English Historical Review.
  
• - For Canadians in China, missionary work went beyond spreading the word of the Bible. Resources from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
  
• - Primary documents and other resources on the Social gospel movement and its participation in the organized anti-imperialist movement from the 1890s to World War I.
  
• - Irving Hexham responds to John Redekopp in this Christian Week article.
  
• - Definition of the term from the Columbia Encyclopedia.
  
• - Point form notes on the history of liberal Protestantism.
  
• - An explanation of the theological position of the social gospel movement.
  
• - Hymn favoured by Christian socialists and the social gospel movement in Britain and North America.
  
• - Extensive article from the Mennonite Historical Society of Canada.
  
• - Examines the movement as it developed in the United States.
  
• - Essay by James C. Fisher arguing that Eduard Lindeman's work on adult education was influenced by the social gospel.
  
• - Christian view on the concept of the Jewish concept of Jubilee which means the redistribution of wealth, the protection of the earth, and the celebration of community.
  
• - Short item on the social gospel movement with profiles of leading figures Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch.
  
• - History of the Chautauqua Movement.
  
• - Lecture on the social gospel from a course on "Religious Life in the United States" examines the movement in the southern United States and the course of social gospel in the twentieth century.
  
• - Article by Robert Price in the Christian Century on attempts to synthesise what, at first, seem to be two contradictory strains in Christianity; fundamentalism and social gospel.
  
• - Clayborne Carson on the religious roots of King's social reformism.
  
• - Based in Britain and active in the Labour Party, the CSM is in a tradition that stretches back to the early church. "We all share a belief in justice, peace and the wholeness of creation."
  
• - Ronald Rolheiser argues that the churches have been, and still are, at those places with the poor where nobody else wants to be.
  
• - Discussion guide to the book by Richard S. Gilbert. PDF format.
  
• - Information about the Social Gospel tradition of Christian socialism.
  
• - Lecture notes from a course on "Religious Life in the United States" examining the origins, theology and impact of the social gospel movement.
  
• - Paper by economics professor Richard E. Hattwick on the social gospel minister and agricultural reformer who was the grandfather of Vice President Henry A. Wallace.
  
• - Background information on the social gospel movement in the twentieth century and prominent figures in it.
  
• - Political perspective on the social gospel movement in early twentieth century America.
  
• - Downloadable books on the topic available by subscription.
  
• - Examines African-American figures in the social gospel movement.
  
• - Historical essay on the Christian educational movement named after the resort in New York state.
  
• - Information about the book by Susan Curtis.
  
• - Selections from Practical Christianity, An Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism by Adin Ballou, edited by Lynn Gordon Hughes.
  
• - Online book by Dr. Patrick L. Cooney  and Henry W. Powell examines the life of the liberal clergeyman and civil rights leader with an extensive look at liberal Christianity and its role in the social justice movements.
  
• - Social Gospel movement books, including The Religion of Revolution and books about Leo Tolstoy, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Golden Rule Jones, and the religious movements of the Progressive Era.
  
• - Anglican timeline.
  
  

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