Sentences with phrase «social gospel leaders»

To identify the work of the social gospel leaders as «theology» is hardly justified if we take the German apologetic tradition as defining what «theology» is.

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The Belhar Confession, originally drafted in 1982 and formally adopted in 1986 by the DRMC of South Africa, came about as white and black Christian leaders wrestled with the gospel and the unjust social systems of their land.

(14) There are echoes here of the apostle Paul's recognition, reflected in several of his letters, of the importance of general social trust and respect of church leaders and members as a necessary framework for communication of the gospel.

Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.

Individual and social salvation were affirmed as of equal importance, and the definition of the former was not as closely tied to the latter as by some of the leaders of the social gospel.

The point I am leading up to is that for many laymen the gospel of liberal social activism offered to them by many pastors, denominational headquarters, and ecumenical leaders has not come as good news.

One of the Social Gospel's most influential leaders was Washington Gladden (1836 - 1918), who for thirty - six years was a Congregational pastor in Columbus, Ohio.

Maurice's writings also influenced the leaders of the «Social Gospel» movement in the USA.

Secondly, if Christian leaders use the concepts of the new ethic without explicitly clarifying what distinguishes them from the social doctrine of the Church and from the gospel, as is often the case, the faithful will be at a loss and will tend not to discern the difference.

Many of the early leaders of the social gospel movement were pastors whose concern for individual slum dwellers, the poor, the prisoners and the sick led them to attack the social sources of human misery and to understand the corporate character of human sin.

11 This was essentially the experience of the two greatest leaders of the Social Gospel Movement, Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch.

Read the Book of Jude and you will see a description of pastors, bishops, leaders of «social organizations» such as the UCC, The United Methodists, Presbyterian USA, Episcopal, and ultra-liberal LEADERS of these denominationsTheirs is a social gospel of works that bypass and dismiss the finished work of Jesus on theleaders of «social organizations» such as the UCC, The United Methodists, Presbyterian USA, Episcopal, and ultra-liberal LEADERS of these denominationsTheirs is a social gospel of works that bypass and dismiss the finished work of Jesus on theLEADERS of these denominationsTheirs is a social gospel of works that bypass and dismiss the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

Walter Rauschenbusch was an American Protestant theologian, an American Baptist minister, and a leader of the Social Gospel movement in the United States before World War I.