Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel (1)

Introduction Outside of fundamentalist Christianity, the social gospel has come to dominate the thinking of the church. Characteristic of the social gospel is the idea that the work of the church can best be described as a concentrated effort to make this world in which we now live a better place, so that the kingdom of God can be realized here on earth. If the church fails to work towards the alleviation of the sufferings of the poor, the oppression of the downtrodden, the eradication of...