TY - BOOK ID - 77885573 TI - The origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's social ethics PY - 1994 SN - 1282856839 9786612856839 0773564551 9780773564558 0773511636 9780773511637 9781282856837 6612856831 PB - Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Social ethics. KW - Social gospel. KW - Church and social problems. KW - Christianity and social problems KW - Social problems and Christianity KW - Social problems and the church KW - Social problems KW - Gospel, Social KW - Christian sociology KW - Ethics KW - Sociology KW - Rauschenbusch, Walter, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77885573 AB - In Rauschenbusch's work pietism, a religion of the heart, was purged of subjectivism while retaining inter-personal compassion; Anabaptist sectarianism provided a Kingdom of God love-ethic without passivity toward the culture; liberalism imparted an openness to the whole community and a powerful, realistic analytic; and the transformationist Christian socialists supplied a case for state intervention while rejecting public ownership as a first principle. Smucker reveals that while the roots of Rauschenbusch's new paradigm lay to some extent in his personal experiences his parents' rejection of the Lutheran perspective for that of the Baptists, his father's pietism, and his eleven-year pastorate in New York's Hell's Kitchen it was his exposure to the new politics of Henry George and Edward Bellamy, to the Christian socialism of England and Switzerland, and, aided by his knowledge of German and his experiences in Europe, to a wide range of scholarship sensitive to the main social currents of the day that deeply informed his ethic. Smucker also shows how Rauschenbusch drew upon the work of Christian ethicists, historians, and sociologists to support his new pluralistic synthesis. ER -