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Date Posted: 19:37:59 01/15/03 Wed
Author: beth
Subject: ch 21 the Social Gospel

The Social Gospel
A. Combined w/ humanitarian sense of social responsibility, helped produce many reforms committed to pursuit of social justice.
1. This idea is from Andrew Carnegie
B. Salvation Army
1. One example of fusion of religion with reform.
2. Was a Christian social welfare organization with a vaguely military structure
a. They offering both material aid and spiritual service to the urban poor
C. The message of Darwinism was not that the individual was engaged in a brutal struggle for survival of the fittest, but that all individuals should work to ensure a humanitarian evolution of the social fabric.
1. This idea was of Father John Ryan
D. The social gospel was never dominant element in the movement for urban reform.

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