Sentences with phrase «form social gospel»

You reference one of those «awesome» (awful) pieces of scripture that goes totally against the humanistic (secular / religioius) common sense, and I think only makes our sense if we separate esoteric (salvational) issues form social gospel and social justice.

Not exact matches

If by «liberation» people mean that Christian thought and life are to be socially engaged, committed to those forms of systemic change necessary for the greater actualization of social justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation thesocial justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theSocial Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theology.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

The distinct twist — which is what made the Social Gospel so effective in preserving the influence of mainline Protestantism — was that Rauschenbusch implicated older forms of Protestantism in this history of corruption.

The secular form of liberalism for Niebuhr was a philosophy and social ethic which stemmed from a secularized Social Gospel combined with American optimism, faith in the techniques of natural science, and the idea of inevitable social prosocial ethic which stemmed from a secularized Social Gospel combined with American optimism, faith in the techniques of natural science, and the idea of inevitable social proSocial Gospel combined with American optimism, faith in the techniques of natural science, and the idea of inevitable social prosocial progress.

The religious form was the theology characterized by the American Social Gospel movement, initiated by Walter Rauschenbusch at the beginning of this century and having its roots in the prevailing theology of Europe in the nineteenth century and in American «revivalism.»

Then, a social gospel in the form of the call to increase both love and justice in human society at manifold points is not only acceptable but imperative.

Gunther Dehn puts the position extremely, «We must learn to recognize that there is no one form of State life, of economics, or of any other social order, that is more in the Spirit of the Gospel than another!

In the heyday of the liberal social gospel which occurred at the same time that form criticism and other important New Testament studies were making a fresh impact on Christian thought, the kingdom was considerably explored.

The modern social gospel is a masculine, worldly form of Christianity.

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

In recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might take.

Dr. Smith preaches a gospel that takes the church beyond its own wall — to wage war against drugs in the street, to form coalitions of Hispanics, Asians, and Caucasians to work for changes in social systems and structures.

It's not uncommon to see the wrong social security number or a misplaced comma, so don't take your tax forms as gospel.