The Idea of Progress in Most Recent American Protestant Thought, 1930–1960
“In hope that sends a shining ray/far down the future's broadening way…” Quoting these lines from a well-known hymn by the Social Gospel pioneer Washington Gladden, Clarence Reidenbach, a Congregationalist minister in Holyoke, Massachusetts, addressed himself late in 1930 to the question of the...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1963
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Church history
Year: 1963, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-89 |
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| Summary: | “In hope that sends a shining ray/far down the future's broadening way…” Quoting these lines from a well-known hymn by the Social Gospel pioneer Washington Gladden, Clarence Reidenbach, a Congregationalist minister in Holyoke, Massachusetts, addressed himself late in 1930 to the question of the meaning of the New Year: “Was Dr. Gladden right? Is life really a broadening way” Or, to put the matter in the language of a classic of intellectual history, is “the idea of progress”—in Professor Bury's words the idea “that civilization has moved, is moving, and will move in a desirable direction”—a valid description of social reality? Reidenbach had no doubt that it was. that it was. “I have at least two great reasons for optimism” that the future is in fact a broadening way, he continued. “One is my confidence in God … the other is that history shows progress.” |
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| ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3162542 |