Synopsis
Walter Rauschenbusch is credited by many interpreters as the fountainhead of the social gospel in America. An American Baptist minister of German heritage, Rauschenbusch was the "prophet" of a movement that created a watershed in American religious thought. Vol. III brings together important texts of Rauschenbusch, most significantly an unpublished book, "Christianity Revolutionary" first begun in 1891/92, and here is the original, unaltered text for the first time. In addition, this volume contains Rauschenbusch's last major work, A THEOLOGY FOR THE SOCIAL GOSPEL (1917). This answered the call for a serious theological underpinning of the social gospel. Volume III includes a first-ever listing of archival resources from North American and European collections that will suggest and enable further investigation of Rauschenbusch. The textual content of Volume III begins with a Theological Introduction prepared by William H. Brackney, eminent historical theologian of the Baptist movement.
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About the Author
William H. Brackney is Distinguished M.R. Cherry Professor Emeritus of Christian Thought and Ethics at Acadia University, and Director of the Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies. Currently he holds the Pioneer McDonald Chair of Baptist Theology and Ethics at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Brackney is also a Research Fellow/Associate of institutes in Amsterdam, Oxford, and Elstal, Germany. The author of more than forty books in post-Reformation Protestantism and global ethics, he was for several years the Curator of the Walter Rauschenbusch Collections in the Samuel Colgate Baptist Historical Library of the American Baptist Historical Society.
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