Social Gospel Movement
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Washington Graden (1836-1918) was a pastor of the Columbus First Conference Council for 32 years. In 1891, he was a representative of the London Conference International Conference. He was also a moderator of the American Association of Congregations and in 1902 he helped solve the problem of anthracite strikes and was called a social reformer.
The social evangelism movement is a religious movement that began in the second half of the 19th century. Ministers, especially those in the Christian Protestant chapter, began combining salvation and good deeds. They believe that people must obey the lifetime of Jesus Christ. To praise God, people must abandon their own secular desires and help others, especially those in need. The purpose of wealth is not to store it, but to share it with other less fortunate people. Thoughts derived from the social gospel will have a major impact on the progressive movement. The social evangelism movement also attacked the concept of social Darwinism.
Followers of the Social Gospel movement carried out many reforms to help other people. One of their most important contributions to society is the establishment of villages. The settlement offers many opportunities for unhappy people, such as access to education, free or low cost health care, free or low cost residences, and countless benefits.
Perhaps the main supporter of American social gospel movement is Washington Grade. Since the 1880's, Gladden has served as a pastor of the First Congregational Council in Columbus, Ohio. Gladen encouraged his congregation to play an active role in community life by attacking unethical behavior of his compatriots and government officials.
Dorn, Jacob H. Washington Gladden: Prophet of the Social Gospel. Columbus: 1967 Ohio State University Press Bureau
Painter, Nell Owen. The grassroots history of the progressive era at the end of the world N. p .: W. W Norton, 2008
The social evangelism movement is relatively short. Americans have not lost interest in social justice. Instead, the philosophical basis of the religious movements has spread and absorbed in the political and academic fields. Female reformers and Protestant pastors are politically active and insist on public health and child labor law, alcohol and women's suffrage. These and other social problems constitute the pillars of the American political progress movement in the early 20 th century.
The social evangelism movement is the most prominent Protestant Christian knowledge movement in the United States and Canada in the early 20th century. The campaign is aimed at social justice issues such as excessive wealth, poverty, alcoholism, crime, ethnic tensions, slums, poverty work, child labor, inadequate unions, school poverty, war risks Apply Christian ethics. In theology, social evangelists try to do the Lord's prayers (Matthew 6: 10): "Your country is coming, you will be on earth, like heaven." The social gospel is usually It is a postmillennian. That is, they believe that the second coming will be achieved until the human race can remove social evil by man's efforts. Social welfare leaders are mainly related to liberalists of the progressive movement, most of them are theological liberalists, but their views on social issues are often conservative.
Social gospel is not an exercise of the working class. As with almost all progressive, Social Gospeler is a professional intermediate-level member. Henry Mei (1949, 235) is the early reading of the social evangelism movement, "the American social gospel of the 19th century". . . It grows from intellectual dissatisfaction with ethics and suffering of others, rather than growing from actual pain. It came from "being forgotten" rather than an educated and devout middle class. It grows through controversy rather than excitement; it does not seek resistance or retreat but seeks change