No Ordinary Sin: Antislavery Protestants and the Discovery of the Social Nature of Morality

In Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Walter Rauschenbusch compared the sin of speculating in land to the sin of slavery. The great theologian of the Social Gospel tried to open his audience's eyes to the sinfulness of land speculation by reminding them that not long ago, Christians had...

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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2010
In: Church history
Year: 2010, Volume: 79, Issue: 2, Pages: 334-358
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