Rauschenbusch and social gospel movement



Table of Content

1.Introduction ____________________________________________ 3

2.Discussion ______________________________________________ 5

a.Origin of movement _________________________________ 5

b.Concept of the Kingdom _____________________________ 8

c.Protestant world and American evangelicals' _______ 10

d.Heritage of reformation ___________________________ 12

e.Principle of free interpretation __________________ 20

f.Religious modernism _______________________________ 22

3.Conclusion _____________________________________________ 23

4.References______________________________________________ 27



Rauschenbusch and social gospel movement

Introduction

Theology is “study, reasoning, science” meaning “the study of God”; the study of phenomenon or events related to God is the study and body of knowledge about the deity. Plato used this term firstly in public to refer to the understanding of the divine nature through reason, as opposed to their literary understanding of contemporary poets. Theology and fundamental branch of philosophy, called first philosophy or study of first principles, later called metaphysics by his followers.

Formed to resolve, through Christian principles, the collective problems of a rapidly industrializing society, the Social Gospel movement is a major force on the religious scene, and social policy from the 1890s to 1930s. Protestant churches explained its amazing power through by the remarkable expansion of, especially evangelicals during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Walter Rauschenbusch (October 4, 1861 to 1918) was a minister Baptist American progressive leader of the movement known as the social gospel. Between 1896 and 1897, was pastor of a Baptist church in Brooklyn, New York. His theology of social gospel became the German liberal theology in the service of social commitment of believers. On the one hand, Rauschenbusch discussed the social dimensions of sin, speaking specifically of social sin.

The fundamental belief of the movement is that God is at work in social change to establish a moral order and social justice. Opinion of movement is an optimistic view of human nature, and the movement has high hopes for social reform. Leaders reformulate traditional Christian concepts such as sin, atonement, salvation, and the Kingdom of God by insisting on a social content adapted to a society increasingly collectivized.

The movement appears to Canada in the 1880s, a decade marked by materialism, political corruption, serious economic difficulties and growing urban unrest in reaction against the difficulties of the era and negativism against Protestant detached from this world.

Discussion

The Social Gospel movement is a Christian intellectual who has committed to fight against poverty, inequality, crime, child labor, racial tensions, the slums, poor hygiene, poor schools, and danger of war. The organizers of the movement were mostly Protestant post-millennial.

Origin of movement

The history of Christianity recognizes many times when theology meets politics and society. Although sometimes isolated the three elements to analyze in some depth in history are intertwined in many ways and following different models. One such attempt was the Social Gospel created and led by Walter Rauschenbusch. Of German origin, Rauschenbusch was professor of history at the Rochester Seminary and pastor of Second Baptist Church German-speaking north of New York in a poor neighborhood known as Hell's Kitchen.

In mindset of extreme poverty, Rauschenbusch develops a theology deeply rooted in social and known as the Social Gospel (social ...