Web Directory

» A Fundamentalist Social Gospel
   Article by Robert Price in the Christian Century on attempts to synthesise what, at first, seem to be two contradictory strains in Christianity; fundamentalism and social gospel.
   http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1269

» Black Social Gospel
   Examines African-American figures in the social gospel movement.
   http://www.vernonjohns.org/tcal001/vjbscgsp.html

» Capitalism in the Gilded Age: The Social Gospel
   Short item on the social gospel movement with profiles of leading figures Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch.
   http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h850.html

» Christian Socialism
   Essay on the movement from Spartacus Schoolnet.
   http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REsocialism.htm

» Christian Socialism is Possible
   Irving Hexham responds to John Redekopp in this Christian Week article.
   http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/evang/red-web.html

» Fundamentalism and the Social Gospel
   Background article from the companion site to PBS' American Experience episode on the Scope's Monkey Trial.
   http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/e_gospel.html

» Jerusalem
   Hymn favoured by Christian socialists and the social gospel movement in Britain and North America.
   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rulebritannia.html#Jerusalem

» Jubilee: The Social Gospel - Revival of Socialism
   Christian view on the concept of the Jewish concept of Jubilee which means the redistribution of wealth, the protection of the earth, and the celebration of community.
   http://www.piney.com/JubileJewish.html

» Liberalism in Religious Thought - White Social Gospel
   Background information on the social gospel movement in the twentieth century and prominent figures in it.
   http://www.vernonjohns.org/tcal001/vjwscgsp.html

» NOW with Bill Moyers. Society and Community. History of the Social Gospel | PBS
   Information about the Social Gospel tradition of Christian socialism.
   http://www.pbs.org/now/society/socialgospel.html

» Practical Christian Socialism
   Selections from Practical Christianity, An Epitome of Practical Christian Socialism by Adin Ballou, edited by Lynn Gordon Hughes.
   http://www.adinballou.org/pcs.shtml

» Sharing the social gospel - Their Christian Duty: Canadian Missionaries Abroad
   For Canadians in China, missionary work went beyond spreading the word of the Bible. Resources from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
   http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-1083-6022/life_society/missionaries/clip1

» Social Gospel
   Article from the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online.
   http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S65ME.html/

» Social Gospel Movement
   Downloadable books on the topic available by subscription.
   http://www.questia.com/popularSearches/social_gospel_movement.jsp

» Social Gospel Theology
   An explanation of the theological position of the social gospel movement.
   http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/kpotter/theology.htm

» Social and Religious Context of the Social Gospel
   The excesses of the Victorian age gave foundation to a number of important political and religious trends that which converged to give rise to the Social Gospel.
   http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/kpotter/pol_rel.htm

» The Chautauqua Movement
   Historical resources on the Christian education movement.
   http://www.campusschool.dsu.edu/myweb/history.htm

» The Christian Socialist Movement
   Based in Britain and active in the Labour Party, the CSM is in a tradition that stretches back to the early church. "We all share a belief in justice, peace and the wholeness of creation."
   http://www.thecsm.org.uk/

» The Life and Times of the Prophet Vernon Johns: Father of the Civil Rights Movement
   Online book by Dr. Patrick L. Cooney  and Henry W. Powell examines the life of the liberal clergeyman and civil rights leader with an extensive look at liberal Christianity and its role in the social justice movements.
   http://www.vernonjohns.org/tcal001/vjtofc.html

» The Origins of the Social Gospel
   Lecture notes from a course on "Religious Life in the United States" examining the origins, theology and impact of the social gospel movement.
   http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/nineteen.html

» The Prophetic Imperative: Social Gospel in Theory and Practice
   Discussion guide to the book by Richard S. Gilbert.
   http://www.uua.org/documents/lfd/propheticimperative_guide.pdf

» The Ram's Horn
   Presenting texts and especially cartoons from The Ram's Horn, an interdenominational social gospel magazine of the 1890s in the United States.
   http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/Rams_Horn/

» The Reverend Henry Wallace
   Paper by economics professor Richard E. Hattwick on the social gospel minister and agricultural reformer who was the grandfather of Vice President Henry A. Wallace.
   http://www.anbhf.org/pdf/wallace.pdf

» The Social Gospel--The Social Crusades
   Lecture on the social gospel from a course on "Religious Life in the United States" examines the movement in the southern United States and the course of social gospel in the twentieth century.
   http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/twenty.html

» What Was Chautauqua
   Historical essay on the Christian educational movement named after the resort in New York state.
   http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/essay.htm

» World Missions and the Social Gospel
   Anglican timeline.
   http://justus.anglican.org/resources/timeline/14missions.html

» lifeissues.net | The Churches and the Social Gospel
   Ronald Rolheiser argues that the churches have been, and still are, at those places with the poor where nobody else wants to be.
   http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/ron/ron_125socialchurch.html