| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch. By Christopher H. Evans. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004. xxx, 348 pp. Paper, $25.00, ISBN 0-8028-4736-6.)

Comprehensive biographies of American Social Gospel leaders are rare, so it is testimony to the appeal of Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) that he is now the subject of three. Like its important predecessors—Dores Robinson Sharpe's Walter Rauschenbusch (1942) and Paul Minus's Walter Rauschenbusch: American Reformer (1988)—Christopher H. Evans's study is well grounded in the Rauschenbusch manuscripts at the American Baptist-Samuel Colgate Library in Rochester, New York. Evans's scope is comprehensive. He probes Rauschenbusch's family background; intellectual formation; role as husband and father; career as pastor, seminary professor, theologian, and historian; civic activities in Rochester; publications; and impact. To those familiar with Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel, this work may offer few surprises, but it integrates what often have been partial insights. Gracefully written and historically and theologically perceptive, it will benefit scholars and a general audience and serve as the starting point for anyone interested in Rauschenbusch for years to come.

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