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Social Gospel

American religious movement
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Lewis W. Hine: photograph of an overseer and child workers in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills
Lewis W. Hine: photograph of an overseer and child workers in the Yazoo City Yarn Mills
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Category: History & Society
Date:
1870 - 1920
Location:
United States
Key People:
Lyman Abbott
Charles Loring Brace
Washington Gladden
Edward Everett Hale
Shailer Mathews
Areas Of Involvement:
Christianity
labour
reform
Related People:
Walter Rauschenbusch
Edward Everett Hale
Charles Loring Brace
Washington Gladden
Lyman Abbott
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Social Gospel, religious social reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. Advocates of the movement interpreted the kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice. The Social Gospel was especially promulgated among liberal Protestant ministers, including Washington Gladden and Lyman Abbott, and was shaped by the persuasive works of Charles Monroe Sheldon (In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do? [1896]) and Walter Rauschenbusch (Christianity and the Social Crisis [1907]). Labour reforms—including the abolition of child ...(100 of 144 words)

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