[Dialogue] New Century, Same Crisis--The Social Gospel 100 Years Later

[Len Hockley]

A good read Randy.

I always  thought there was a basic difference between Reinhold and H 
.Richard.  Hooray for H. Richard

Any way you can see this wisdom to be of use to our meeting of "Springboard"?

Len


At 01:43 PM 11/2/2007 +0000, R Williams wrote:
>Colleagues,
>
>In the introduction to the G-O-D Lecture in RS-1 we marked the year 1907 
>as the beginning of the 20th century, and we grounded this with events 
>such as Einstein's theory of relativity, the Bolshevik Revolution, World 
>War I, etc.  One of the events we did not mention was the publication in 
>that year of the book by Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social 
>Crisis, which introduced what has come to be known as the "social gospel."
>
>I have attached an article from Commonweal magazine in which Carey Nelson 
>Blake states that "Rauschenbusch tore down the wall that separated faith 
>from the public world and called on the church to address the suffering 
>and degradation that accompanied the rapid industrialization of the United 
>States."
>
>Regarding the importance of this for our roots, H. Richard Niebuhr was 
>clearly influenced by Rauschenbusch when he stated that the church as 
>social pioneer turns its back on the manifestations of "sin" or "evil", 
>abolishes it within itself, and leads in the social act of 
>repentance.  For Rauschenbusch, according to Blake, "Sin was embedded in 
>institutional arrangements, not just in individual motivations and 
>actions...  A faithful life demanded of sinners both personal and social 
>repentance."
>
>Another note of interest, Paul Raushenbush, a great-grandson of Walter, 
>has edited a new edition titled Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 
>21st Century.
>
>I hope you have time to read the attached article.  I would be interested 
>in your reflections.
>
>Randy Williams
>
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