Walter Rauschenbusch

context” (Olson 148). German scholar Adolf Von Harmack and American social reformer, Walter Rouschenbusch continued to build upon Ritschl’s theology, Harmack produced a scaled down version of the Gospel consisting of three truths: 1. Kingdom of God and its coming, 2. God the Father and the infantile value of the human soul, and 3. the higher righteousness and commandment of love (qtd. in Olson 166). Rauschenbusch, a member of the social gospel movement in the United States, used his lectures…

the Social Gospel movement to instill religious ethics into the business world. 18. Congregational minister Washington Gladden started a ministry for working-class neighborhoods and favored sanctions to improve workers’ rights. 19. Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, proclaimed that Christians should endorse social reform to end poverty and labor abuse. 20. According to the members of the Social Gospel movement, it was the government’s ethical responsibility to improve the…

Christian religious tradition (or Christianity) has long been thought of as a set of dogmas, sacraments and moral attitudes linked with a belief and reverence in God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit as captured in the stores of the Bible. Within Biblical gospels one find descriptions of the many miracles Jesus Christ bestowed upon mankind, stories that became fundamental to Christian belief, where the faithful profess to the genuine nature of these stories as factual truths. Given the…