The Social Message of Jesus: A Course of Twelve Lessons (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Social Message of Jesus: A Course of Twelve Lessons

Meanwhile who shall teach us the truth about these all-important matters? To whom shall we go for the words of eternal life? In Emerson's day, so he tells us, not a reading man but has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket.1 Similarly to-day men of every type of social faith, from the state socialist at one extreme to the anarch ist at the other, are offering us their solutions of the social problem. Who has the word of truth?

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Excerpt from The Social Message of Jesus: A Course of Twelve Lessons

The lessons which follow do not aim to be a course in sociology, nor a discussion, except in an incidental way, of particular social problems. They aim to develop, from a study of His words and His deeds, the message of the great Teacher to His own generation and to every generation. It is hoped that the personal contact with the life and spirit of Jesus which a careful investigation of the theme along the lines laid down will bring to the student will furnish him, not so much with social information as with the disposition and the motive which will make him of use in bringing in the kingdom.

It will be seen that my debt is large to a few books which are well known to every student of the field. The following are suggested as nearest the heart of the theme:

Peabody, Jesus Christ and the Social Question.

Shailer Mathews, The Social Teaching of Jesus.

Shailer Mathews, The Social Gospel.

Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis.

Cone, Rich and Poor in the New Testament is an acute discussion of one phase of the subject, and Campbell's Christianity and the Social Order, like Rauschenbusch's volume, makes a study of Jesus' message the basis of an earnest plea for socialism as the completest modern expression of the message.

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