Rauschenbusch

Here he encountered the writings of Walter Rauschenbusch, an early-20th-century proponent of the Social Gospel, and fell in with a group of civil rights activists.

He was the son of Walter Rauschenbusch, a prominent theologian and key figure in the Social Gospel movement.

He encountered the writings of Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor and central figure in America’s social-gospel movement.

While the social gospel produced many important figures, its most influential leader was a Baptist minister, Walter Rauschenbusch.

Rauschenbusch began his career in the 1880s as minister of an immigrant church in the Hell’s Kitchen section of New York.