Texas Baptist Leadership and Social Christianity, 19001980

The social upheavals of the twentieth century have elicited the gamut of responses from organized religion. The "social gospel" in northern Protestant circles was a response to ills from rapid industrialization, and its activism rested upon a liberal theology critical of conventional Protestantism. The "social Christianity" that developed in the more rural South, on the other hand, was deeply rooted in theological conservatism, and it justified its call for social action with the Bible.Storey, John W. is the author of 'Texas Baptist Leadership and Social Christianity, 19001980 ', published 1986 under ISBN 9781585440702 and ISBN 1585440701.