American History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Paul S. Boyer

Author:Paul S. Boyer [Boyer, Paul S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Reform energies awaken

Already in the Gilded Age, unregulated corporate power, widening class disparities, and appalling conditions in factories and immigrant cities stirred concern. Reform-minded ministers, preaching what they called the Social Gospel, insisted that Jesus’s teachings, if taken seriously, required concern for the poor and exploited. The British reformer William Stead challenged comfortable middle-class churchgoers to confront the grim underside of American life in If Christ Came to Chicago (1893). Charles Sheldon, a Congregationalist minister in Topeka, Kansas, did the same in his bestselling novel In His Steps; What Would Jesus Do? (1896). (Echoes of Sheldon’s novel survive in contemporary “WWJD” bracelets, coffee cups, and bumper stickers.)

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