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...
Subtitles: | Forum on the State of the Field of Social Gospel Studies |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2015]
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Church history
Year: 2015, Volume: 84, Issue: 1, Pages: 199-202 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Church
/ Social Gospel
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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. |
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ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640715000049 |