Walter Rauschenbusch – pastor i reformator na miarę czasu? Wyzwania dla ruchu ewangelii społecznej w dobie przemian społecznych w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

• Authors: Sebastian Dama

Abstracts

EN

Walter Rauschenbusch was an important figure in American liberal Protestantism, the social gospel movement, and American theology. He served for many years as pastor of the Second German Baptist Church in New York and a professor at Rochester Theological Seminary. His most notable work was Society of Christian Social Crisis (1907), in which he set forth his ideological assumptions for Christianity in the United States. These ideas referred primarily to the vision of the Kingdom of God on Earth, which was to be instituted mainly through eliminating social inequalities and facilitated by the spread of love of neighbor and social justice. In addition, they were inspired by the figure and activities of Jesus Christ, whom the American pastor saw not only as a son of God, a prophet, and, before all, as a social activist. Hence, to act effectively, Rauschenbusch created a movement based on Christian socialism, as reflected in the Society of Christian 168 sebastian dama Socialists and later in the social gospel movement, which significantly changed not only Christianity in the United States but also the society of the country.

Keywords

EN

social gospel; liberal Protestantism; Christianity; practical theology; congregationalism

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Religioznawcze
• Journal: Przegląd Religioznawczy
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 1/287
• Pages: 167-176

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Sebastian Dama

• Akademia Marynarki Wojennej w Gdyni

• https://orcid.org/0000000313674795

Identifiers

DOI

10.34813/ptr1.2023.11

Biblioteka Nauki

44744137