Sentences with phrase «between social gospel»

We can then consider the differences between the social gospel and liberation theology to pursue the relation of Wesley to the current scene.

Second, is the dichotomy between social gospel (the idea that if we work hard enough we can usher in the Kingdom of God on our own) and giving up (the idea that any attempts at redeeming this world are futile).

Here is the bridge between the social gospel and the neo-orthodox theology.

It is not simply because of a difference between social gospel and the traditional and historically, the publication and stand for the «fundamentals of the faith» was not during WW1 nor a result of the social gospel per see.

Not exact matches

The process helped bridge the gap between social service action and proclamation of the Gospel.

Encompassing the Social Gospel movement of the early twentieth century and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops at the beginning of the twenty - first, this project has transcended the historical and theological division between Catholics and Protestants.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

Many people are tired of the divides between «reconciliation» and «justice,» between «personal salvation» and «social gospel.»

The plain truth is that white theologians, even those of the social gospel period, ignored the situation of oppression suffered by blacks and made few and superficial connections between their theology and the egregious evils of slavery and segregation.

It is a symbol which can be the basis for understanding between the American social gospel and the Continental insistence that God's Kingdom can not be identified with human schemes.

The third is the commonplace but essential observation that there can be no legitimate cleavage between an individual and a social gospel.

But one of the great divisions in liberalism was that between organized labor and the churches that were the heirs of the social gospel movement.

History suggests that American Protestants, despite their recent preoccupations with virtue and tradition, are probably just resting between their periodic commitments to social transformation (joining such causes as temperance, abolition, the social gospel and civil rights).

The suggestion,» he writes, «led me to ask myself what particular aspect of the Gospel of Jesus Christ provided for me the continuing crucial link first between the spiritual experience of my adolescence and of my adulthood, and second, between my inner spirituality and my concern for religious renaissance and social change in India.

The characteristic Lutheran distinctions between law and gospel, between sin and grace, between saving redemption and social responsibility are all prominent, as is the employment of the classical «just war / unjust war» criteria.

This teaching is an eminently social one: every believer in the gospel is a priest, i.e., a mediator and intercessor between God and men.