Family
Early Life
Influences
The Social Gospel
Potluck
100
A 6th generation protestant theologian and minister. A missionary to early Missouri, who was baptized in the "Father of Waters," the Mississippi River, and this man was the chair of the department of German at Rochester Theological Seminary?
Who is August Rauschenbusch?
100
Had an eye for nature and a hand for the sketchbook. In early 1880's he spent his student teenage days in European travel as he refined his "artistic taste" in German museums.
Who is Walter Rauschenbusch?
100
A man described as having a style that was breezy and genius and utterly fearless by Rauschenbusch. He called himself a “Christian evolutionist” who reconciled Darwin and the Bible. This man recommended a book in economics that changed Rauschenbusch’s life.
Who is Harrison Webster, a geology professor?
100
The Christian revolution that Walter Rauschenbusch led.
What is the Social Gospel?
100
This is what the seven people in the book"Civic Passions" are referred to as?
What are Progressives?
200
This woman became a missionary in 1882, for the Women's Baptist Missionary Society of the West. She also worked among the Telegu, a movement that had over 20,000 participants, the largest Baptist church in the world at the time.
Who is Emma Rauschenbusch?
200
During his younger years Walter saw the pit fall in this type of thinking. Felt that some could use this to justify doing nothing in the face of worldly problems.
What is Apocalyptic thinking?
200
A group of on men who banded together with Rauschenbusch. They thought of themselves as a new Society of Jesus. This group included a Baptist pastor from the slums of Philadelphia, Samuel Zane Batten, Leighton Williams and Nathaniel Schmidt, and others. This group began with 9 founding members.
What is the Brotherhood of the Kingdom?
200
The biblical passage that the "Social Gospel" focused on.
What is The Lord's Prayer?
200
The people the "Social Gospel" advocated change for.
What are poverty stricken immigrants?
300
This woman met Walter while attending a convention in Milwaukee. She was a local school teacher. She married Walter on April 12, 1982.
Who is Pauline Rother?
300
In 1884 and 1885 Walter Rauschenbusch spent his summers ministering at this church.
What is the German Baptist Church in Ohio?
300
An author and activist for social reform. Harrison Webster, the geology professor, urged Rauschenbusch to read this author’s book published in 1879 entitled Progress and Poverty. Rauschenbusch followed this man as he completed his studies, became ordained and was preparing to answer the call to go preach in New York City.
Who is Henry George?
300
This is the name of Walter Rauschenbusch's most famous book.
What is "Christianity and the Social Crisis?"
300
This is what Rauschenbusch was referring to when he said, "swept the bread from men's tables and the pride from their hearts."
What is modern extreme capitalism?
400
Walter vowed to be different from his father. He would give his children the happier home lives denied to him and his sisters.
What are Walter's family values?
400
A small congregation of struggling workers and their families. Rauschenbusch served as a minister of this church between 1886-1897. During this time he baptized, married, and buried parents and children.
What is the Second German Baptist Church.
400
Reform movements that swept the nation over the next century that were influenced by Rauschenbusch’s Social Gospel.
What is the fight for child labor laws, manageable workweek with a minimum wage, FDR’s New Deal, the Great Society, and the Civil rights movement?
400
The Social Gospel meant that Christian principles were directly applicable to these types of problems here on Earth.
What are Social problems?
400
Rauschenbusch believed that Jesus set the _____ for the early Church and the entire Christian life.
What is "template?"
500
Walter's father expected "absolute submission" which was not natural to this woman. She was accused of "malice" and dealt the cruelest blow when he told her that she was "no Christian."
Who is Caroline Rumps, Walter's mother?
500
Born in Rochester. Walter Rauschenbusch spent many of his younger years in Europe and other places in the U.S. Returned to Rochester in 1897 to accept an offer of a professorship at this Seminary.
What is the Rochester Theological Seminary?
500
He published a short book titled Social Reform and the Church (1894). A John Hopkins professor of political economy, Rauschenbusch met him through his Brotherhood of the Kingdom group. He once wore a farmer’s overalls to church to affirm God’s welcome of the rich and poor alike. He viewed laissez-faire as a fallacy at the core of economics.
Who is Richard T. Ely? Ely’s ideology was a huge influence on Rauschenbusch.
500
The "Social Gospel" called for a new ______ and _____ political order.
What is "Social" and "Political?"
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Waldorf Austoria Hotel? This is where Walter Rauschenbusch gave a lecture on his new book Christianity and the Social Crisis.
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