James Robertson replied to James Robertson's discussion Social Gospel in the group The Church Visible

Social Gospel was a movement led by a group of liberal Protestant
progressives in response to the social problems raised by the rapid
industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age. The
social gospel differentiated itself from earlier Christian reform movements by
prioritizing social salvation over individual salvation. Although the ministers
and activists of the social gospel based their appeals on liberal theology,
which emphasized the immanence of God and the doctrine of Incarnation and valued
good works over creeds, they usually showed more interest in social science than
in theology. Believing that laissez-faire capitalism's understanding of labor as
a commodity and its sole reliance on
mechanisms of supply and demand to determine wages and allocate resources was
un-Christian, social gospel advocates supported the labor movement and called
for an interventionist welfare state. They differed from secular
activists in that their ultimate vision was not just a more equitable balance of
power within society, but a Christianized society in which cooperation, mutual
respect, and compassion replaced greed, competition, and
conflict among social and economic classes. Despite all of their efforts to
reach the working class and to cooperate with the labor movement, though, the
social gospel failed to reach far beyond its middle-class liberal Protestant
milieu. Ultimately, the greatest achievement of the social gospel was to prepare
the ground of middle-class America for progressivism. - Answers.com

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