11 Facts About Walter Rauschenbusch

Walter Rauschenbusch was an American theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary.

Walter Rauschenbusch was the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty and the great-grandfather of Paul Raushenbush.

Walter Rauschenbusch was born October 4,1861, in Rochester, New York, to Germans Augustus Rauschenbusch and the former Caroline Rump.

In 1886, Walter Rauschenbusch began his pastorate in the Second German Baptist Church in "Hell's Kitchen", New York.

Walter Rauschenbusch died in Rochester on July 25,1918, at the age of 56.

Walter Rauschenbusch bore their crushing attack in his body and soul.

Walter Rauschenbusch bore them, not by sympathy, but by direct experience.

Walter Rauschenbusch had not contributed to them, as we have, and yet they were laid on him.

The idea of the Kingdom of God is crucial to Walter Rauschenbusch's proposed theology of the social gospel.

Walter Rauschenbusch stated that the ideology and "doctrine of the Kingdom of God" of which Jesus Christ "always spoke" had been gradually replaced by that of the church.

Walter Rauschenbusch saw four practical advantages in emphasizing the Kingdom of God rather than the Church: The Kingdom of God is not subject to the pitfalls of the Church; it can test and correct the Church; it is a prophetic, future-focused ideology and a revolutionary, social and political force that understands all creation to be sacred; and it can help save the problematic, sinful social order.