Shailer Mathews's Lives of Jesus: The Search for a Theological Foundation for the Social Gospel

Reappraises the work of Shailer Mathews, a leading but long-neglected theologian of the social gospel movement whose work prefigures contemporary liberation theologies.
This book focuses on a significant, but neglected, leader of the social gospel movement, University of Chicago theologian Shailer Mathews (1863-1941). In two widely read lives of Jesus--The Social Teaching of Jesus (1897) and Jesus on Social Institutions (1928)--Mathews laid a foundation for social gospel theology that dealt carefully and creatively with the charge that the social gospel enculturates Christian faith. Lindsey's book engages in a close reading of the two Mathews books, and concludes that Mathews's foundation for social gospel theology prefigures political and liberation theologies in important respects, and thus deserves reappraisal.

About the author

William D. Lindsey is author of Ethics and Morality and Singing in a Strange Land, and an adjunct faculty member at the Loyola Institute for Ministry, New Orleans.

Product details

• Authors: William D. Lindsey
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1997
• EAN: 9780791435076
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3507-6
• No. of pages: 307
• Weight: 599 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Christentum, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Religion - Theology