Sentences with phrase «modern social gospel»

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

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Theology has not given adequate attention to the social idealizations of evil... The new thing in the social gospel is the clearness and insistence with which it sets forth the necessity and the possibility of redeeming the historical life of humanity from the social wrongs which now pervade it... The social gospel seeks to bring men under repentance for their collective sins and to create a more sensitive and more modern conscience.

And his Gospel, though not a pattern of an ecclesiastical system nor yet a program for modern social reform, is still «social» through and through — social because religious, in the ancient biblical understanding of religion.5

The social gospel, the relationship of Christianity to socialism and Marxism, the problems of modern warfare, nationalism and imperialism are standard themes.

These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.

The application of this fact to mistaken modern notions of an «individual» versus a «social» gospel is obvious.

Modern exponents of the «social gospel» are usually not as penetrating in their insights.

The social gospel, by contrast, was a 60 - year movement and enduring perspective that paved the way for modern ecumenism and social Christianity.