Title: The origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's social ethics /
Authors: Smucker, Donovan E. 1915-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Rauschenbusch, Walter,; Social ethics.; Social gospel.; Church and social problems; Morale sociale.; Évangile social.; Église et problèmes sociaux.
Abstract: Walter Rauschenbusch is known as the father of the Social Concern movement in America. Traditionally, the source of his social ethic has been seen to lie in the single motif of liberalism. Donovan Smucker provides a new perspective, arguing that Rauschenbusch's social ethic was based on not one but four complementary influences: pietism, sectarianism, liberalism, and transformationism.
Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chronological Development -- 3. The Influence of Pietism -- 4. The Influence of Anabaptist Sectarianism -- 5. The Influence of Social and Religious Liberalism -- 6. The Influence of Christian Socialist Transformationism -- 7. Summary and Conclusion -- Appendix: Rauschenbusch and Martin Luther King -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.