Description |
xviii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Series |
New studies in American intellectual and cultural history |
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New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-312) and index. |
Contents |
1. American Protestantism at a crossroads -- 2. Work and salvation in corporate America -- Washington Gladden : the labor question in industrial America -- Shailer Mathews : "Men must be convinced that you are sincere" -- Caroline Bartlett Crane : professionalization of domesticity, domestication of profession -- 3. American families and the social gospel: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps : 'Half the meaning of the gentle scene is hidden" -- Walter Rauschenbusch : "Bound up by a thousand ties" -- The Macfarlands : a social gospel family -- 4. Ministers and the bully pulpit: Lyman Abbott : from the "Barbarism of individuality" to "Fraternal government" -- Mary Eliza McDowell : cleanliness, godliness, reform -- Bishop Francis John McConnell : herald of a humanized faith -- 5. The Pentecost of calamity : the great war and the social gospel: George Davis Herron : the defeat in the victory -- Harry Emerson Fosdick : the challenge of the present crisis -- Edward Scribner Ames : the new orthodoxy -- 6. A consuming faith : the social gospel and modern American culture: Charles Monroe Sheldon : "Youth, it's your innings!" -- Charles Stelzle : a son of the bowery on Madison Avenue -- Charles E. Jefferson : thirty years on Broadway. |
Subject |
United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
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United States -- Church history -- 20th century.
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Social gospel.
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Protestant churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Indexed Term |
Society Role of Christianity History |
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United States |
ISBN |
0801841674 alkaline paper |
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