Social Gospel/Bibliography

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Primary sources

• Walter Rauschenbusch. A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917). online edition; also excerpt and text search
• Walter Rauschenbusch. Christianity and the Social Crisis. (1907)
• The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom (1898) by Josiah Strong complete text from Google Book Search
• Thomas, Lewis Herbert ed. The Making of a Socialist: The Recollections of T.C. Douglas (1984)
• Wilhelm Herrmann, Adolf von Harnack. Essays on the Social Gospel (1907), 255 pages, by German theologians. online edition

Secondary sources

• Abell, Aaron I. American Catholicism and Social Action: A Search for Social Justice (1960),
• Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People (1974)
• Curtis, Susan. A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture (1991)
• Dorn, Jacob H., ed. Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America Greenwood Press, (1998) articles by scholarsonline edition
• Dorn, Jacob H. "The Social Gospel and Socialism: A Comparison of the Thought of Francis Greenwood Peabody, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch," Church History 62 (March 1993): 82-100 in JSTOR
• Edwards, Wendy J. Deichmann, and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford, eds.. Gender and the Social Gospel (2003) excerpt and text search
• Fraser, Brian J. The Social Uplifters: Presbyterian Progressives and the Social Gospel in Canada, 1875-1915 (1990)
• Gorrell, Donald K. The Age of social Responsibility: The Social Gospel in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 (Mercer University Press, 1988)7
• Handy, Robert T. ed. The Social Gospel in America, 1870-1920 (1966)
• Handy, Robert T. "George D. Herron and the Kingdom Movement," Church History 19 (June 1950): 97-115,
• Hopkins, Charles Howard. The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865-1915. (1940), the standard history; online edition
• Hutchison, William R. "The Americanness of the Social Gospel; An Inquiry in Comparative History," Church History, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1975), pp. 367-381 online in JSTOR
• King, William McGuire. "History as Revelation" in the Theology of the Social Gospel," The Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 1 (Jan., 1983), pp. 109-129 in JSTOR
• Latta, Maurice C. "The Background for the Social Gospel in American Protestantism," Church History , Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sep., 1936), pp. 256-270 online at JSTOR
• Lindley, Susan H. "Women and the Social Gospel Novel," Church History, Vol. 54, 1985 online edition
• Luker, Ralph E. The Social Gospel in Black and White American Racial Reform, 1885-1912. (1991)online edition ; also excerpt and text search
• McNaught, Kenneth. A Prophet in Politics: A Biography of J. S. Woodsworth (1959), on Cabada. online edition
• McDowell, John Patrick. The Social Gospel in the South:

The Women's Home Mission Movement in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1886-1939 (1982)

• Marty, Martin E. Modern American Religion, Vol. 1: The Irony of It All, 1893-1919 (1986); Modern American Religion. Vol. 2: The Noise of Conflict, 1919-1941 (1991)
• Meyer, Donald. The Protestant Search for Political Realism, 1919-1941 (1988) online edition
• Muller, Dorothea R. "The Social Philosophy of Josiah Strong: Social Christianity and American Progressivism," Church History 1959 v 28 #2 pp. 183-201] online at JSTOR * Rogers, Jack B., and Robert E. Blade, "The Great Ends of the Church: Two Perspectives," Journal of Presbyterian History (1998) 76:181-186.
• Smith, Gary Scott. "To Reconstruct the World: Walter Rauschenbusch and Social Change," Fides et Historia (1991) 23:40-63
• Smucker, Donovan E. The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics 1994 online edition
• White Jr. Ronald C. Liberty and Justice for All: Racial Reform and the Social Gospel (1877-1925) (2002) excerpt and text search
• White, Ronald C., Jr. and C. Howard Hopkins. The Social Gospel. Religion and Reform in Changing America (1975).
• Zald, Mayer N., and Patricia Denton. "From Evangelism to General Service: The Transformation of the YMCA," Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Sep., 1963), pp. 214-234 in JSTOR