biography
| name: |
Rauschenbusch, Walter
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pronunciation:
[rowshenbush]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1918)
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| biography:
| Protestant religious leader, born in Rochester, New York, USA. The son of an immigrant German clergyman, he studied in Germany and returned home to graduate from the Rochester Theological Seminary in 1887. His experience as pastor of an impoverished German immigrant parish in New York City turned him to the Social Gospel movement, of which he became a leader. In 1897 he left parish work to become a professor at the Rochester seminary. His book, A Theology for the Social Gospel, appeared in 1917. |
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