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Essays on the Social Gospel

Essays on the Social Gospel

by Adolf von Harnack

Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and the most famous church historian of his generation. Professor at Berlin, he traced Christianity's development in his monumental History of Dogma and popularized its 'essence' as the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Our library carries several volumes of his History of Dogma and his Essays on the Social Gospel — primary documents of liberal Protestant scholarship.

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First published
1907
Category
Theology
Length
45k words · about 3 hours
Chapters
12

About this book

A collection of essays by Adolf von Harnack on the social message of the gospel, in English translation. Harnack asks what the teaching of Jesus means for society, charity, and the common life, writing as the leading liberal church historian of his generation. The essays show how the social gospel movement drew on the new historical theology of the day.

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Chapter I. Introductory
  3. Chapter II. General Attitude of the Gospel Towards Social Arrangements
  4. Chapter III. Historical Retrospect 🔒
  5. Chapter IV. The Social Mission of the Church of To-Day 🔒
  6. Chapter V. The Pursuit of Education 🔒
  7. Chapter VI. Meaning and Value of Education 🔒
  8. Chapter VII. Main Features of Modern Education 🔒
  9. Chapter VIII. Dangers of Modern Education 🔒
  10. Chapter IX. The Sense in Which the Gospel Becomes a Real Power 🔒
  11. Chapter X. Conflict Between the Evangelistic and Modern Outlook 🔒
  12. Chapter XI. The Real Mind of Jesus 🔒

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