Word: gospeller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopeful signs are beginning to appear. Up against it, the sick nations of South America have begun to produce men of austerity and courage, who are insisting that their people tighten their belts for a return to realistic economies. President Pedro Aramburu of Argentina, an eloquent preacher of the gospel of higher productivity, has in the past two months successfully resisted three large-scale strikes for increased wages...
...study abroad and found that he was famous. The book he had sent to the publishers before he left was taking turn-of-the-century America by the head and heart; Christianity and the Social Crisis lit the Protestant beacon that came to be known as the Social Gospel. Last week a round table at the University of Chicago's Federated Theological Faculty honored Author Walter Rauschenbusch with a discussion of his impact and influence on U.S. Protestantism...
...Social? Walter Rauschenbusch died of cancer in 1918 at the age of 56, broken in spirit by World War 1, rejected by many Americans because of his German background and his attempts to keep the U.S. from fighting. Later his Social Gospel became so powerful that it took U.S. Protestantism to opposite extremes: churches sometimes seemed to be turning into sanctified civic-betterment societies...
...purpose is to create public opinion, to recruit crusaders to preach our humane gospel, to oppose legislation such as this recent pound bill in Massachusetts. In-fighting and politicking...
...mere parroter of the Gospel, Elias displays an exceptional knowledge of the Scriptures. Two weeks after he began his meetings, he was drawing crowds of 2,000 and 3,000 people. With the jungle grapevine at work, word spread that he had the power of miracle healing, and hundreds of sick and maimed Africans in Rhodesia flocked to pray at his feet...