Gender and the Social Gospel
Edwards, Wendy J. Deichmann / Gifford, Carolyn De Sware![Gender and the Social Gospel](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/170/1705665/CHSBZCOP031705665.jpg)
This collection of essays examines the central, yet often overlooked, role played by women in the formation of the social gospel movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A practical theological response to the stark realities of poverty and injustice prevalent in turn-of-the-century America, the social gospel movement sought to apply the teachings of Jesus and the message of Christian salvation to society by striving to i...