Walter Rauschenbusch

(noun)

A theologian and Baptist preacher who developed the highly influential doctrine of the Social Gospel. In his influential work, A Theology for the Social Gospel, Rauschenbusch argued that Chirstians were called to improve social conditions, fighting poverty, oppression, corruption, and other social ills.

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Examples of Walter Rauschenbusch in the following topics:

  • Markets and Missionaries

    • One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell’s Kitchen in New York City.
    • Rauschenbusch railed against what he regarded as the selfishness of capitalism and promoted a form of Christian Socialism that supported the creation of labor unions and cooperative economics.
    • While pastors such as Rauschenbusch were combining their expertise in Biblical ethics and economic studies and research to preach theological claims around the need for social reform, others such as Dwight Moody refused to preach about social issues based on personal experience.
    • Rauschenbusch sought to address the problems of the city with Socialist ideas that proved to be frightening to the middle classes, the primary supporters of the Social Gospel.

  • Progressivism and Religion

    • Walter Palmer.
    • Ely, Josiah Strong, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch.
    • One of the defining theologians for the Social Gospel movement was Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist pastor of a congregation located in Hell's Kitchen.
    • Rauschenbusch railed against the selfishness of capitalism and promoted a form of Christian Socialism that endorsed labor unions and cooperative economics.

  • The Social Gospel

    • Ely, Josiah Strong, Washington Gladden, and Walter Rauschenbusch.

  • Television News

    • Walter Kronkite is one of the iconic figures in television anchoring .
    • In the early twenty-first century news programs, especially those of commercial networks, tended to become less oriented toward hard news, and often regularly included "feel-good stories" or humorous reports as the last items on their newscasts, as opposed to news programs transmitted thirty years earlier, such as the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

  • Persuasive vs. Informative Speaking

    • Journalists, like Walter Cronkite, generally use informational speeches to inform their viewers of news events.

  • The challenges involved with remanufacturing

    • Products that take advantage of current or fleeting trends (‘Industrial design is a field that was specifically invented to convince people that the washing machine, the car, or the refrigerator they had was out of fashion,' says Walter Stahel, ‘and fashion is something that can't be remanufactured.').

  • German Bauhaus Art

    • Despite its name meaning "house of construction" in German and the founder, Walter Gropius, being an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during its first years.
    • The school existed in three German cities: Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933, under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930 andLudwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from theNazi regime, having being painted as a centre of communist intellectualism.

  • Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance

    • That same year, Walter Sutton observed the separation of chromosomes into daughter cells during meiosis .
    • (a) Walter Sutton and (b) Theodor Boveri are credited with developing the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance, which states that chromosomes carry the unit of heredity (genes).

  • Journalists

    • The term "anchorman" was used to describe Walter Cronkite's role at the Democratic and Republican National conventions.
    • Walter Cronkite, the iconic anchor of CBS Evening News, on location during the Vietnam War.

  • Modern Architecture

    • Notable architects important to the history and development of the modernist movement include Frank Lloyd Wright, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Alvar Aalto.
    • Along with Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern architecture.
    • Frank Lloyd Wright was a major influence on European architects, including both Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as on the whole of organic architecture.