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Rocky Mountain radical : Myron W. Reed, Christian Socialist / James A. Denton.
LIBRA HX84.R43 D45 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Denton, James A. (James Andrew), 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reed, Myron W., 1836-1899.
- Reed, Myron W.
- Socialists--United States--Biography.
- Socialists.
- United States.
- Christian socialism--United States--History--19th century.
- Christian socialism.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- This biography explores the life of the American West's leading Christian Socialist in the late nineteenth century. Social, cultural, religious, political, and labor history are blended to capture Reed's controversial career as a preacher and reformer. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Reed sought to create what he called a "new community", God's kingdom on earth. His sermons and lectures envisioned the federal management of critical economic resources for the common good to guarantee everyone a "comfortable life". The popular preacher tirelessly criticized exploitative capitalism and corrupt machine politics and advocated social justice, labor reform, Native American rights, women's suffrage, scientific charity, and other causes. In 1894, he championed labor at the violent Cripple Creek strike and called Jesus Christ an "anarchist", controversies that led to his resignation from the affluent First Congregational Church. At his next pulpit, the nonsectarian Broadway Temple, he preached his Christian Socialism even harder to the poor and churchless. After a lengthy illness, the fiery Reed died in 1899.
- Contents:
- A city of entrepreneurs
- Cooperation : foundation for a new community
- Politics : power without justice
- Modern charity : creating opportunity
- Labor : a frontier with opportunity and conflict
- Christian socialism : a more comfortable way
- Epilogue : a friend of the masses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826318142
- OCLC:
- 36755733
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