Rauschenbusch

[rou-shuhn-boosh]

noun

1. Walter, 1861–1918, U.S. clergyman and social reformer.

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Here he encountered the writings of Walter Rauschenbusch, an early-20th-century proponent of the Social Gospel, and fell in with a group of civil rights activists.

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He was the son of Walter Rauschenbusch, a prominent theologian and key figure in the Social Gospel movement.

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He encountered the writings of Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor and central figure in America’s social-gospel movement.

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While the social gospel produced many important figures, its most influential leader was a Baptist minister, Walter Rauschenbusch.

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Rauschenbusch began his career in the 1880s as minister of an immigrant church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York.

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