| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

The Search for Social Salvation: Social Christianity and America, 1880–1925. By Gary Scott Smith. (Lanham: Lexington, 2000. x, 545 pp. $85.00, ISBN 0-7391-0196-X.)

The Social Gospel is usually portrayed as a product of a theologically liberalizing wing of American Protestantism responding to changes resulting from the rapid industrialization and urbanization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While not entirely rejecting the importance of individual salvation, its advocates, found mainly in the urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, preached that the Gospel had a social application to the evils of society. In The Search for Social Salvation, Gary Scott Smith agrees that the movement was partly this but also demonstrates that it was much more. Significantly, Smith prefers the older, nineteenth-century term "social Christianity" to Social Gospel to indicate one of his central themes: that the effort by American Protestants to address society's problems was a diverse movement that crossed denominational, theological, regional, gender, racial, and class lines. . . .

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