Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chile 30 years ago plumped for social security modeled on advanced West European systems. Now an elaborate scheme with such frills as pensions at 100% of pay, social security costs 28% of the budget...
...Rochester, N.Y. stepped off a ship in New York City after a year's 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...
...Kingdom of God was to him a corporate enterprise of salvation-something that could be brought a lot closer by wise legislation and the use of social pressure to protect the oppressed workingman and limit the power of his boss, to drive out the corrupt politician and put the vast natural resources of the New World into the public domain. Clergymen and laymen took up the cry 'for this challenging new way of interpreting ,the New Testament. Behind Rauschenbusch a new generation of militant ministers, such as Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick, the late Methodist Bishop Francis J. McConnell...
...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...
Today the churchman's complaint is no longer that the bodies of the workers are being sweated, but more likely that their souls are being stifled in too much benevolent prosperity. Where Rauschenbusch preached the need for social organization, his successors deplore Organization Man. It is not so much that the Social Gospel is dead, but that it has been assimilated. The light Rauschenbusch lit half a century ago still burns in the activist, cause-conscious heart of U.S. Protestantism...