Christianity And The Social Crisis In The 21st Century

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Rauschenbusch has been called one of the most influential religious leaders of the last 100 years, and "Christianity Today" named this book one of the top books of the century that have shaped contemporary religious thought. So it seems fitting on the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Christianity and the Social Crisis" that Rauschenbush's great-grandson should bring this classic back into print, adding a response to each chapter by a well-known contemporary author such as Jim Wallis, Tony Camplo, Cornel West, Richard Rorty, Stanley Hauerwas, and others. 'Christianity is in its nature revolutionary', Rauschenbusch wrote, and the significance of his work is that it spoke of society's responsibility to the poor and downtrodden.

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"A book which left an indelible imprint on my thinking." -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Republication in this form is a forceful intervention in contemporary debates in American religion and politics. -- Commonweal

Many of the societal concerns and questions of 1907, e.g., his alarm over iner-city poverty, societal injustice, crime, and ineffectual government, are just as relevant today. -- Library Journal

"Skillfully fashioned and perfectly timed, [Rauschenbusch's] book was a supercharger for a movement . . . and set a new standard for political theology. Rightly viewed from the beginning as the greatest statement of the social gospel movement." -- Christian Century

In a 100th-anniversary edition, Paul Raushenbush, the author's great-grandson, has reprinted the text with essays by Cornel West, the Rev. Jim Wallis and others to prove that one can be a dedicated Christian and a social reformer at the same time. -- The New York Times Book Review

Rightly viewed from the beginning as the greatest statement of the social gospel movement . . . and set a new standard for political theology. -- Christian Century

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Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was the primary theologian of the Social Gospel movement whose mission was to meet social needs through the ministrations of the institutional Church. Paul Raushenbush (1964- )graduated with honors in practical theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He has served as Associate Minister for Young Adults at The Riverside Church in New York City and has been involved in ministry to street youth in Seattle and Sao Paulo, Brazil. An ordained American Baptist minister following in the footsteps of his great-grandfather Walter Rauschenbusch, Pastor Paul is Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University.