Key figure in the 'social gospel' movement in N America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A Baptist minister who from working in the 'hell's kitchen' of New York saw that the gospel requires radical social and political transformation. The kingdom of God is a model for a society based on the Christian principles of equal rights and democratic distribution of economic power.

• http://www.warc.ch/where/23gc/study/stud2b.html

• http://www.mts.net/~lehotsk1/WR-POSA-intro.htm

...From Prayers of the Social Awakening (1910).

• http://www.bartleby.com/227/0911.html

• http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rausch-socialgospel.html

• http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/htallant/courses/his338/students/kpotter/

• http://www.christianethicstoday.com/Issue/001/Issue_001_April_1995.htm