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In A Theology for the Social Gospel, Walter Rauschenbusch sets out a theological basis for the Social Gospel movement. He explores how key Christian doctrines apply in the Social Gospel, including sin and redemption, the atonement, the Holy Spirit, eschatology, and the Kingdom of God. Rauschenbusch argues that all society must be brought “under the law of Christ” and that the church should be a...

As Professor Royce well says: “It is the always young, it is the childlike, it is the essentially immature aspect of the deeper religious life. Its ardor, its pathos, its illusions, and its genuine illuminations have all the characters of youth about them, characters beautiful, but capricious.”1 There is even question whether mysticism proper, with rapture and absorption, is Christian in its antecedents, or Platonic. I believe in prayer and meditation in the presence of God; in the conscious purging
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