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During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, inspired others to fight against the economic inequality of the time with the “Social Gospel.”
Social Gospel ministers helped inspire President Theodore Roosevelt to break up business monopolies and abolish child labor.
During the Great Depression, Father John A. Ryan built such a national following condemning the excess of capitalism that he was invited to deliver prayers at a presidential inauguration.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spent the last three years of his life focusing on poverty. When he was assassinated in 1968, he was on the cusp of leading a nonviolent, interracial army of poor people into the nation’s capital to demand a fairer distribution of wealth.
These ministers who took on the big economic issues of the day were inspired by the example of Jesus, who angered the powerful by condemning the economic exploitation of the poor.
His teachings are seen throughout the New Testament in parables such as “The Rich Man and Lazarus.”
“Jesus took sides – he said he didn’t come to bring peace but a sword,” said Vincent Miller, a Catholic theologian and author of “Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in Consumer Culture.”
What happens to Jesus' teachings when the religious right takes the side of the rich?
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/...-taboo-condemning-greed-amid-great-recession/
Social Gospel ministers helped inspire President Theodore Roosevelt to break up business monopolies and abolish child labor.
During the Great Depression, Father John A. Ryan built such a national following condemning the excess of capitalism that he was invited to deliver prayers at a presidential inauguration.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spent the last three years of his life focusing on poverty. When he was assassinated in 1968, he was on the cusp of leading a nonviolent, interracial army of poor people into the nation’s capital to demand a fairer distribution of wealth.
These ministers who took on the big economic issues of the day were inspired by the example of Jesus, who angered the powerful by condemning the economic exploitation of the poor.
His teachings are seen throughout the New Testament in parables such as “The Rich Man and Lazarus.”
“Jesus took sides – he said he didn’t come to bring peace but a sword,” said Vincent Miller, a Catholic theologian and author of “Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in Consumer Culture.”
What happens to Jesus' teachings when the religious right takes the side of the rich?
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/...-taboo-condemning-greed-amid-great-recession/
