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Article: Kingdom coming.(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 17, 2005
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The Kingdom Is Always but Coming: A Life of Walter Rauschenbusch.
By Christopher H. Evans. Eerdmans, 378 pp., $25.00 paperback.
WE HAVE NEEDED a good biography of Walter Rauschenbusch for some time, and Christopher Evans has provided us with the best one so far. The Kingdom Is Always but Coming covers not only the personal life of the founder of the Social Gospel movement as it developed from the 1880s through the 1920s, but also the intellectual and social history of the Progressive Era. The movement Rauschenbusch helped spawn has deeply shaped ecumenical Protestantism, especially in North America and also in many of the churches Protestants planted ...