| Born | Johann Friedrich Oberlin, Lutheran Pastor 31 August 1740 |
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| Died | 1 June 1826 (aged 85) Waldersbach, Bas-Rhin, France |
Part 2 - Social Gospel Movement
A. The Revised Version - a flop and utter Bible failure. 1881 - Westcott and Hort Greek NT version - Mark 1:1 - Son of God erased from the Greek.
B. Unitarian Universalist. "The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is a religious organization that combines two traditions: the Universalists, who organized in 1793 and the Unitarians, who organized in 1825. They consolidated into the UUA in 1961."
C. The mainline Protestant churches tended toward UUA - Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ, ELCA, Northern Baptist (Rauschenbusch). Harvard, Princeton, and Yale were mainline and repudiated basic Scriptural doctrine. A YDS fellow alumnus said, "You were lucky Greg. The great Biblical scholars you had are gone now, except for..."
D. Rauschenbusch - A Theology for the Social Gospel -1917. Note what this really means - using the Gospel words to cover for politics.
Earlier - French Pastor Oberlin, later Oberlin College. I bought the cookies.
E. Professor A. D. Mattson - Christian Social Consciousness, 1950s.
The Mainline Denominations Now
The mainlines today are extreme Leftists who use a bit of theological language to cover for their activism. Rauschenbusch majored in that kind of thinking.
