How to Care about Social Justice and Get the Gospel Right
How should Christians address the issue of social justice? The answer is not by turning to social gospel but by turning to the true gospel.
How should Christians address the issue of social justice? The answer is not by turning to social gospel but by turning to the true gospel.
The gospel has important social dimensions. In this essay the author wants to show the considerations in the social and political thinking of evangelicals in times past. Wilberforce and Shaftesbury are remembered as some of the outstanding examples of a biblical Christianity that was prepared to take on the challenge of social reform.
How should the church be involved in matters of social concern? Is the social gospel not a real threat? This essay wants to encourage loving Christian social involvement.
This article looks at Walter Rauschenbusch's theology and his view of the kingdom and the social gospel.
Walter Rauschenbusch is known as the father of the social gospel. This article looks at his life and the development of the social gospel. The author of this article is critical of the social gospel, maintaining that it differs from the true gospel.
Looking at accounts of past perversions of the gospel can help the church deal with modern issues. This article addresses the topics of hypercalvinism, liberalism, social gospel, the charismatic movement, and arminianism.