Word: rauschenbusch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away from their fascination with other worlds-astrological, metaphysical or religious-and summoned to confront the concrete issues of this one," wrote Cox, a professor of religion at Harvard Divinity School. His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness. Ever since Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch began to preach his social gospel at the end of the 19th century, there had been a growing feeling in U.S. Protestantism that religion was not a thing of pious Sundays but of vigorous, shirtsleeve weekdays. Many Roman Catholics and Jews were also trying to involve their churches and synagogues...