The Social Gospel Today

by Evans, Christopher H.

• ISBN13: 9780664222529
• ISBN10: 0664222528
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

This collection explores how the theological tradition of the social gospel, born within the social and cultural dislocations of late nineteenth-century America, relates to the dislocations--post-modern, denominational, social, and cultural--of the current American scene. Mindful of the difficulty of reconciling the need for change with the imperative to preserve theological integrity, the contributors argue that America's only indigenous theological tradition remains powerfully relevant to mainline churches and to the scholars who work out of these institutions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
G. Thomas Halbrooks
Introduction: Historical Integrity and Theological Recovery: A Reintroduction to the Social Gospel	1	(16)
Christopher H. Evans
Part I: Historical and Theological Legacy
Deciding Who Counts: Toward a Revised Definition of the Social Gospel	17	(10)
Susan Hill Lindley
The Social Gospel Movement and the Question of Race	27	(11)
Darryl M. Trimiew
The Kingdom of God, the Church, and the World: The Social Gospel and the Making of Theology in the Twentieth-Century Ecumenical Movement	38	(15)
Melanie A. May
Gender and the Kingdom of God: The Family Values of Walter Rauschenbusch	53	(14)
Christopher H. Evans
Women Creating Communities---and Community---in the Name of the Social Gospel	67	(19)
Rosemary Skinner Keller
Giving Patterns and Practices among Church Women in the Methodist Episcopal and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1870--1920: A Social Gospel Perspective	86	(15)
Dianne Reistroffer
Part II: The Social Gospel Today
Social Salvation: The Social Gospel as Theology and Economics	101	(13)
Gary Dorrien
The Reawakening of the Evangelical Social Consciousness	114	(12)
Timothy Tseng
Janet Furness
The Social Gospel, Gender, and Homosexuality: Then and Now	126	(20)
Janet Forsythe Fishburn
The Fifth Social Gospel and the Global Mission of the Church	146	(14)
Max L. Stackhouse
The Social Gospel and Pastoral Care Today	160	(11)
Pamela D. Couture
Conclusion: Toward a New Social Gospel?	171	(6)
Christopher H. Evans
Notes	177	(26)
Selected Bibliography	203	(6)
Index of Names	209	(3)
Index of Subjects	212