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1861–1918 United States

Walter Rauschenbusch (October 4, 1861 – July 25, 1918) was an American theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and single tax movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which will call the world evil and change it.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

Ancient families became extinct and the Church became the heir of their lands and slaves and serfs.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

With them he linked his points of view, the convictions which he regarded as axiomatic.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

We are to-day in the midst of a revolutionary epoch fully as thorough as that of the Renaissance and Reformation.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

Jesus accepted John as the forerunner of his own work.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

This Christian ceremonial system does not differ essentially from that against which the prophets protested; with a few verbal changes their invectives would still apply.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God.

Christianizing the Social Order (1912)

All social movements would gain immensely in enthusiasm, persuasiveness, and wisdom if the hearts of their advocates were cleansed and warmed by religious faith.

Christianizing the Social Order (1912)

The most important effects of Christianity went out from it without the intention of the Church, or even against its will.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

The socialism of continental Europe, taking it by and large, is actively hostile, not only to bad forms of organized religion, but to religion itself.

Christianizing the Social Order (1912)

We shall confine this brief study of the Old Testament to the prophets, because they are the beating heart of the Old Testament.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

The fundamental purpose of Jesus was the establishment of the kingdom of God, which involved a thorough regeneration and reconstitution of social life.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

The sympathy of the prophets, even of the most aristocratic among them, was entirely on the side of the poorer classes.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

I have written this book to discharge a debt.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

There is no question on which side the sympathy of the prophets was enlisted. Their protest against injustice and oppression, to the neglect of all other social evils, is almost monotonous.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

In the main he shared John's national and social hope. His aim too was the realization of the theocracy.

Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Rauschenbusch (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.