Sentences with phrase «prophetic social gospel»

Nevertheless, human pride being what it is, some exponents of this prophetic social gospel seemed to lay more stress on the human builders than on the activity of God in the process.

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The pervasiveness of this emphasis can now be seen even in Christian social ethics, the field born out of the Social Gospel movement and one which in the name of prophetic spirit and social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal social ethics, the field born out of the Social Gospel movement and one which in the name of prophetic spirit and social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal Social Gospel movement and one which in the name of prophetic spirit and social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal social analysis has been critical of Protestantism's tendency to focus on personal piety.

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.

In the twentieth century the social gospel and the liberation theologies have continued the prophetic emphasis on concrete historical change.

Whereas the Church should be a prophetic voice for justice and peace and the integrity of creation, this globalization invites the Church to neglect the core message of the Gospel, to legitimize this social order based on greed and injustice to the majority of humanity and is racist in defending the present European - made world order.

The principal paths that have been followed are an apocalyptic, cataclysmic, second coming to put an end to the present world and the prophetic or social gospel kingdom that has accented the conquest of earth's evil by human effort to increase love and justice in response to God's call.

When society began to treat justice as a simple historical possibility, as many American Protestants did during the Social Gospel era, the prophetic task of the next generation of «Christian realists» was to insist that there are things that society can not do, goals that must remain «impossible possibilities.»

What we American Protestants call the Social Gospel, which flourished from around 1890 to 1950, had reemphasized the prophetic tradition, partly under the influence of Marx.

The revolutionary social, economic, and intellectual developments in post-Civil War America stimulated within Protestantism attempts to develop a new prophetic ministry which would exercise critical judgment on the injustices which accompanied the radical changes of the period and would point the way to a new application of the gospel to the social needs of the time.