Abstract
Abstract Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) is widely recognized as the most influential and sophisticated theologian of the Social Gospel movement. Gary Dorrien, among the most prominent writers on American liberal theology, goes a step further. Dorrien (1995: 6) calls Rauschenbusch “the crucial figure” in the making of social Christianity in the United States and “the most instructive precedent for the modern liberationist project” (Dorrien 1990: 17). This essay supports a more modest yet broader claim. Reading Walter Rauschenbusch informs and benefits theological and social ethics whether or not it fits within the liberationist project.
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