The origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's social ethics / Donovan E. Smucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smucker, Donovan E. (Donovan Ebersole), 1915-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rauschenbusch, Walter, 1861-1918.

Rauschenbusch, Walter.

Social ethics.

Social gospel.

Church and social problems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 173 pages) : portrait

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Rauschenbusch's work pietism, a religion of the heart, was purged of subjectivism while retaining inter-personal compassion; Anabaptist sectarianism provided a Kingdom of God love-ethic without passivity toward the culture; liberalism imparted an openness to the whole community and a powerful, realistic analytic; and the transformationist Christian socialists supplied a case for state intervention while rejecting public ownership as a first principle. Smucker reveals that while the roots of Rauschenbusch's new paradigm lay to some extent in his personal experiences his parents' rejection of the Lutheran perspective for that of the Baptists, his father's pietism, and his eleven-year pastorate in New York's Hell's Kitchen it was his exposure to the new politics of Henry George and Edward Bellamy, to the Christian socialism of England and Switzerland, and, aided by his knowledge of German and his experiences in Europe, to a wide range of scholarship sensitive to the main social currents of the day that deeply informed his ethic. Smucker also shows how Rauschenbusch drew upon the work of Christian ethicists, historians, and sociologists to support his new pluralistic synthesis.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chronological Development

The Influence of Pietism

The Influence of Anabaptist Sectarianism

The Influence of Social and Religious Liberalism

The Influence of Christian Socialist Transformationism

Summary and Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85683-9

9786612856839

0-7735-6455-1

OCLC:

929121964