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- Canada for the People!: A Study of the Social Gospel in Canadian History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
United Church of Canada's relation with the social gospel and the criticisms of the Social Gospel movement
- The Canadian Social Gospel: 1880-1960
What is the social gospel?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
What is the social gospel? It is an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1880s to the 1960s.
- Christians on the Left: The Importance of the Social Gospel in the Canadian Social Democratic Tradition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
This article looks at the history of the Canadian social democratic movement and highlights the preponderant role played by leftist Christians. Finding their inspiration in a social interpretation of Christ's message, these Christians became heavily involved in the process of creating a new political party, clearly to the left of the political spectrum, and helped shape its discourse.
- Social Gospel
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Social Gospel was an attempt to apply Christianity to the collective ills of an industrializing society, and was a major force in Canadian religious, social and political life from the 1890s through the 1930s.
- Social Gospel
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the early 20th century United States and Canada. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labour, inadequate labour unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.
- The Social Passion
Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
- The Social Passion: A review
A review of The Social Passion: Religion and Social Reform in Canada
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Richard Allen’s contribution to the understanding of the development of Canadian society and Canadian political history is invaluable.
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