Term Social Gospel was first used by Charles Oliver Brown in reference to Henry George's 1879 treatise, Progress and Poverty, which sparked the single tax movement.
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15 Facts About Social Gospel
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Activists in the Social Gospel movement hoped that by public measures as well as enforced schooling the poor could develop talents and skills, the quality of their moral lives would begin to improve.
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Important concerns of the Social Gospel movement were labor reforms such as abolishing child labor and regulating the hours of work by mothers.
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In 1892, Rauschenbusch and several other leading writers and advocates of the Social Gospel formed a group called the Brotherhood of the Kingdom.
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Social Gospel established a free dispensary for medical emergencies, an employment bureau for job seekers, a summer camp for children, night schools for extended learning, and English language classes for immigrants.
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Social Gospel became city chaplain and director of public welfare of Denver in 1918.
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Social Gospel built a model church, with night schools, unemployment bureaus, kindergarten, an anti-tuberculosis clinic, and the nation's first church-owned radio station.
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Examples of the Social Gospel's continued influence can still be found in Jim Wallis's Sojourners organization's Call to Renewal and more local organizations like the Virginia Interfaith Center.
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Social Gospel was primarily concerned with the day-to-day life of laypeople, one of the ways in which it made its message heard was through labor movements.
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Particularly, the Social Gospel had a profound effect upon the American Federation of Labor.
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Biographer Randall Woods argues that Social Gospel themes learned from childhood allowed Lyndon B Johnson to transform social problems into moral problems.
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The Social Gospel explicitly inspired his foreign-policy approach to a sort of Christian internationalism and nation building.
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Many of the Social Gospel's ideas reappeared in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
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Social Gospel's writings called for the Kingdom of God "here and now".
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Social Gospel was a significant influence in the formation of the People's Church in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1919.
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