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The Social Gospel, Yesterday and Today

February 19, 2012

The Social Gospel, Yesterday and Today [Excerpts] By the early 1900s, most theological liberals had made social concerns central to their understanding of the gospel. Historian George Marsden writes, “While not necessarily denying the value of the traditional evangelical approach of starting with evangelism , social gospel spokesmen subordinated such...Read more

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