The Kingdom is Always But Coming
A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch
By Christopher H. Evans
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Subjects: All History, All Religious Studies, All Theology, Church History, Historical Theology |
Given the 2005 Award of Merit by Christianity Today, Christopher Evans’ The Kingdom is Always but Coming follows the life and career of American theologian Walter Rauschenbusch, the preeminent spokesperson at the center of the social gospel movement. Perceptive, well-informed, and ably written, Evans’ biography is a superb introduction to both Rauschenbusch’s life and his thought.
Foreword, by Mark A. Noll
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. In the Shadow of August Rauschenbusch
2. The Energetic American
3. Beneath the Glitter
4. Social Salvation
5. Rauschenbusch’s Assisi
6. The Pleasures of Youth
7. The New Apostolate
8. A Psychological Moment
9. The Social Awakening
10. The Struggles of Kingdom Building
11. Social Redemption
12. A Few Brave Souls
13. The Little Gate to God
Bibliography
Index
“Timely and absorbing. Like the best in this genre, this biography brilliantly positions Rauschenbusch in his own era.”
—Harvey Cox, Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
“Splendid. A model of historical scholarship and theological analysis; it significantly strengthens our understanding of Rauschenbusch and his era.”
—Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
“Definitive. Evans presents the paradoxes and complexities of Rauschenbusch’s life, thought, and action in ways that past biographers have not.”
—Rosemary Skinner Keller, Professor Emerita of Church History, Union Theological Seminary
Christopher H. Evans (Ph.D., Northwestern University) is Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of Church History, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Rochester, New York. He is the author and editor of several books, including, The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture (2002), and The Social Gospel Today (2001). In 2005 The Kingdom is Always but Coming won the "Award of Merit" for outstanding title in history/biography in Christianity Today magazine. He lives in Penfield, New York. An ordained United Methodist minister, Evans also serves as a parish associate at Christ Episcopal Church, Pittsford, NY.
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