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2 unusual facts about Social Gospel


Christian Social Union

Christian Social Union (U.S.), a Social Gospel membership association established in the United States in April 1891

Walter Russell Bowie

He served as a Red Cross chaplain at Base Hospital 45 in France during World War I. Bowie's advocacy for what was becoming known as the Social Gospel was given expression in his support for the League of Nations, advocacy for US immigration reform, his opposition to the Ku Klux Klan and Fundamentalism.



see also

Josiah Strong

Luker, Ralph E. The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 (1998).

Sophonisba Breckinridge

Breckinridge worked with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop, social gospel minister Graham Taylor (founder of the settlement house, Chicago Commons) and others to create the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, becoming its first (and only) dean.