The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, 1865–1915 By Charles Howard Hopkins. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1940. 352 pages. $3.00.

1941 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-83
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Hightower
Keyword(s):  
Social Gospel ◽  
New Haven ◽  
Yale University ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Protestantism

The Mission to China

2020 ◽  
pp. 11-33
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Protestantism ◽  
The Relationship

American Protestantism determined to a large extent the nature of the mission errand to China, especially in the Chinese Protestant elite’s understanding of social Christianity. American Protestantism, however, suffered from certain weaknesses in its own understanding of the relationship between Christianity and society, and this weakness was most evident in the message of the Social Gospel. The Social Gospel aimed to reshape the modern industrial economy, so that it was more humane to workers and more beneficial to society. That message, though, was compromised in its transmission to China by its association with imperialism. Beyond this message of the Social Gospel, American missions were also the early benefactors of the main institutions—colleges and universities, the YMCA and the YWCA—through which the Protestant elite influenced the larger society.

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