A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture.

The Historian | March 22, 1993| | Copyright

Even though most contemporary Americans profess to be God fearing and church going, compared to their nineteenth-century relatives Americans are a secular people. Susan Curtis suggests in this provocative book that Protestant advocates of the social gospel played a major role in shaping the secular ethic that defines the modem United States.

Rather than focus on the theological premises of the social gospel or examine its institutional manifestations, Curtis shows how a group of sixteen men and women--including Caroline Bartlett Crane, Walter Rauschenbusch, Charles ...

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