USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to the Social Gospel, people, especially churches ____
A
should save the poor with education.
B
should welcome the poor into their congregations.
C
were obligated to engage in philanthropy.
D
should provide Bibles in hotel rooms.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Consequently, social gospel leaders supported legislation for an eight-hour work day, the abolition of child labor and government regulation of business monopolies. While the social gospel produced many important figures, its most influential leader was a Baptist minister, Walter Rauschenbusch.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Social Gospel Movement was a religious movement that arose during the second half of the nineteenth century. Ministers, especially ones belonging to the Protestant branch of Christianity, began to tie salvation and good works together. They argued that people must emulate the life of Jesus Christ.

Detailed explanation-3: -The primary work of the institutional church is not to promote social justice, it is to warn people of divine justice. Its primary business is not to call society to be more righteous but to tell persons of the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social Gospel in the Nineteenth Century Washington Gladden was the first person to formulate the ideas of the social gospel. After failing to have the definite conversion experience required by his family’s orthodox Calvinist faith, Gladden discovered liberal theology.

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