Jane Addams, Apotheosis of Social Christianity
Jane Addams was not a theologian or a minister; she held no university position. However, in her role as head resident of the Hull-House settlement she became a social theorist of democracy and one of its most influential interpreters. Her primary interest was not in religious institutions, but in t...
| 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: 207-219 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Addams, Jane 1860-1935
/ USA
/ Christianity
/ Democracy
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America |
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| Summary: | Jane Addams was not a theologian or a minister; she held no university position. However, in her role as head resident of the Hull-House settlement she became a social theorist of democracy and one of its most influential interpreters. Her primary interest was not in religious institutions, but in the moral and ethical concerns of public life in American society. Was it a good society? Did the people share in a common life? Were the least of them nurtured and protected? In 1892, Addams declared, “This renaissance of the early Christian humanitarianism is going on in America, in Chicago, if you please, without leaders who write or philosophize, without much speaking, but with a bent to express in social service and in terms of action the spirit of Christ.” |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0009640715000062 |