Walter Rauschenbusch: Published Works and Selected Writings; Christianizing the Social Order and Other Writings: Vol 2

Rauschenbusch, Walter/ Brackney, William H. (Editor)/ Gushee, David P. (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0881466468 / ISBN 13: 9780881466461

Published by Mercer Univ Pr, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Walter Rauschenbusch: Published Works and Selected Writings; Christianizing the Social Order and Other Writings: Vol 2
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881466468
• ISBN 13: 9780881466461
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.14 kilograms

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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. This three-volume set makes available the original texts of a seminal thinker in an authorized and critical edition. In Volume II, ethicist David Gushee provides an in-depth analysis of Rauschenbuschs ethics. Included are his major works, CHRISTIANIZING THE SOCIAL ORDER (1912), DARE WE BE CHRISTIAN? (1914), and THE SOCIAL PRINCIPLES OF JESUS (1916). Also included are, UNTO ME (1912), "Some Moral Aspects of the Woman Movement" (1913), and "The Greatest of These" (1913). Rauschenbusch was a dynamic thinker, whose ethics reveal an evolving character from a strictly Biblicist method to his being influenced by Socialist thinkers, German historicism, and American Progressive Era economics.

About the Author

William H. Brackney is the Dr. Millard R. Cherry Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Acadia Divinity College. Previously, he has been the director of Baptist Studies at Baylor University, dean of Theology at McMaster University and curator of the Samuel B. Colgate Baptist Historical Collection of the American Baptist Historical Society. From 1986 to 1990 he was chair of the Study and Research Division of the Baptist World Alliance and traveled widely in that role.