Sentences with phrase «old social gospel»

He insisted that two things were lacking in the old social gospel.

By the third decade of the twentieth century an anti-metaphysical Comteanism was combined with statistical technique to shape a specifically American positivism which, activated as social technocracy, promised to deliver America from the problems that bad been addressed by the old Social Gospel...

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All those «prosperity gospel» preachers rely on senile old ladies to keep sending in their pension and Social Security checks every month, but as long as the little old ladies don't escalate to sticking up convenience stores to support their evangelical habits, they'll never come to your attention.

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 Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

Some felt that social concern was the consequence of forsaking the old - fashioned gospel and that it spelled ruin for the nation.

These theses of the socially powerless Jesus, the compromise of the gospel ethic with world and other systems of thought, the centrality of the love commandments, the need for a viable social ethic utilizing social philosophies, and the understanding by all this in relationship to the history of social philosophies had a forceful impact upon both H. Richard Niebuhr and his older brother Reinhold Niebuhr.

It was the old question of the gospel against entrenched social evil.