I came early to Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis, which left an indelible imprint on my thinking by giving me a theological basis for the social concern which had already grown up in me as a result of my early experiences...
It has been my conviction ever since reading Rauschenbusch that any religion which professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the social and economic conations that scar the soul, is a spiritually moribund religion only waiting for the day to be buried. It has well been said: "A religion that ends with the individual, ends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
from "Pilgrimage to Non Violence"
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment