Social Gospels Thrived Outside the Church

Three vignettes underscore that, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century United States, social gospels often fared best outside the walls of the institutional churches. They also reveal diverging interpretations of Christianity and the church that begin to explain the divergence between r...

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Subtitles:Forum on the State of the Field of Social Gospel Studies
Main Author: Carter, Heath W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2015]
In: Church history
Year: 2015, Volume: 84, Issue: 1, Pages: 199-202
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Church / Social Gospel
IxTheo Classification:KBQ North America
KDD Protestant Church
NCC Social ethics
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Summary:Three vignettes underscore that, in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century United States, social gospels often fared best outside the walls of the institutional churches. They also reveal diverging interpretations of Christianity and the church that begin to explain the divergence between religious liberalism and social progressivism during this time.
ISSN:1755-2613
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0009640715000049