Liberalism in Religious Thought - White Social Gospel
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Description: Background information on the social gospel movement in the twentieth century and prominent figures in it.
Vernon Johns 6 White Social Gospel PART III. LIBERALISM IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT The tradition of theological liberalism is a long one (Luker 1991:12-14 & 244). Originating in the American Missionary Association, it was organized as a protest against cooperation with slaveholders in the missions and helped in relief in the South. After the war, theological liberals was the focus of much of the northern missionary effort in the education of postwar freedmen. It may have been the most important vehicle of the social gospel prior to the organization of the Federal Council of Churches in 1909. One of the outstanding ministers in this tradition was Henry Ward Beecher. Other key evangelical neoabolitionist spokesmen were Washington Gladden, Amory Bradford, Charles Cuthbert Hall (president of Union Theological Seminary), and Henry Churchill King. They were all leaders of the American Missionary Association and appealed to theological personalism for values in race relations.
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