The Social Gospel is a social movement within Protestantism that aims to apply Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war. It was most ...

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 charity and justice.

2022年1月4日 · The term social gospel is usually used to refer to a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that came to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Promoters of the social gospel sought to apply Christian principles to social problems, with a focus on labor reform.

2024年7月2日 · The Social Gospel Movement was a religious and social initiative in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems, particularly poverty, inequality, and labor exploitation.

2023年1月4日 · The phrase "social gospel" has become increasingly popular as Christians how to live their faith out, not simply know the right things. But what actually is the social gospel?

2021年1月21日 · The social gospel is a version of social reconstruction based upon perceived ideas of social injustice that uses Scripture as a justification for change. Yes, social injustice does occur – because people are wicked.

The social gospel was a movement among Christians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that focused on people's welfare, often over their need for the gospel. Some of its major leaders included Richard T. Ely, Josiah Strong, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch.

The Social Gospel was a religious movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that aimed to apply Christian ethics to social problems, particularly issues like poverty, inequality, and labor rights.

The early social gospel movement emerged during the rapidly industrializing American society following the Civil War. Recognizing the injustices of “triumphant capitalism,” some progressive ministers prescribed a large dose of “practical Christianity” to right these wrongs and directly address the social needs of the era (Hopkins, 121).

Proponents of the “social gospel” connected social reform to scriptural ideals, calling for regulation of the rapidly industrializing, vastly unequal society that emerged in the late 1800s.