Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 "A Perfect Man in a Perfect Society": The Emergence of the Social Gospel in Nineteenth-Century America 21
2 Interpreting the "Golden Rule": Turn-of-the Century Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Reformers 47
3 Kingdom Coming: The Social Gospel and the "Social Awakening" in the Early Twentieth Century 77
4 "The Church Stands For …": Institutionalizing the Social Gospel 107
5 "Since Rauschenbusch-What?" The Social Gospel between the World Wars 135
6 Achieving the "Beloved Community": Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Twilight of the Social Gospel 165
7 An Evangelical Social Gospel? The Christian Right and Progressive Evangelicalism 193
Conclusion: The Social Gospel in American History 221
Notes 229
Bibliography 247
Index 259
About the Author 271