Christianity and the Social Crisis
By Walter Rauschenbusch
- Release Date: 2017-10-02
- Genre: Christianity
Description
When Walter Rauschenbusch published Christianity and the Social Crisis in 1907, he expected it to cost him his career. Instead it sold out immediately and made him famous. His argument was as simple as it was radical: the church had abandoned the prophetic tradition of the Hebrew scriptures and the revolutionary social vision of Jesus, retreating into personal piety while capitalism ground the poor into the earth. Drawing on the Bible, church history, and his own years ministering to the urban poor of New York, Rauschenbusch issued a challenge that still rings out — that faith without justice is no faith at all. One of the most consequential works of American religious thought, this is a book that helped invent the social conscience of the modern church.
