A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture. By Susan Curtis. New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xviii + 320 pp.

1993 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 432-433
Author(s):  
Robert T. Handy
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Intellectual

scholarly journals The Church Club of New York Library

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
Jacqueline H. Rider
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Social Gospel ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Church ◽  
Changing Society

Organized in 1887 by religious, financial, and social leaders in Manhattan, the Church Club of New York holds a library of some 1,500 volumes. It documents the religious roots and theological framework of New York’s financial elite, the birth of the Episcopal Church, and mainline American Protestantism’s reaction to the Social Gospel movement in the early 20th century. This essay discusses how titles illustrate the challenges these gentlemen confronted to their roles and their church’s identity in a rapidly changing society. Industrialization, modernization, immigration were all affecting their personal, professional, and spiritual lives.  It also reflects on how the collection as a whole mirrors the evolution of one sector of 20th century American culture.

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