Walter Rauschenbusch

Walter Rauschenbusch ( born October 4, 1861 in Rochester (New York); † July 25, 1918 ) was an American Baptist theologian and chief representative of the Social Gospel.

Life

Rauschenbusch was born into a Baptist family of German origin. His father was August Rauschenbusch, who belonged to the second generation of German Baptists and exercised by his literary and theological teaching material impact on the evolution of the then young Free Church.

After graduating from high school in 1883 on the Evangelical Stiftisches school in Gütersloh and undergraduate studies at the University of Rochester Walter Rauschenbusch received his theological training at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rochester, which he finished in 1886. Rauschenbusch was a Baptist minister in a poor area of Manhattan. Here he joined a group of like-minded people, out of which the concept of the Social Gospel was developed.

1897 received Rauschenbusch a reputation as a professor at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Rochester. In several writings, especially in A Theology of the Social Gospel (1917 ) he created toward the theological foundation of a social dimension of the Gospel and the resulting responsibility of Christians for social reforms as steps toward the Kingdom of God.

Importance

Rauschenbusch linked in a special way evangelical pietism with capitalism and critical social-reformist passion. His views had according to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Walter Rauschenbusch was also Ira David Sankey, together with a hymnal out and worked casually as a church hymn writer and translator. I Look to your crosses down: In the free-church hymnal celebrations and praise can be found under the number 248 even a song verse from him.

Works

  • The gospel singer (Hymns, published jointly with Ira David Sankey ), publisher of JGOncken successor ( Phil Bickel ) Hamburg 1890
  • Christianity and the Social Crisis. 1907 - reissued with a foreword by Douglas F. Ottati: Louisville, 1991, ISBN 0-664-25321-0
  • The Freedom of Spiritual Religion, Philadelphia 1910
  • Christianizing the Social Order, 1912
  • A Theology for the Social Gospel, New York 1917 ( German: The religious foundations of the social message, translated from English by Clara Ragaz, with an introduction by Leonhard Ragaz, Erlenbach / Zurich 1924)
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