"On Earth As In Heaven"
Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel in the 21st Century

October 18, 2007, 7 p.m.
James Chapel

On Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 7:00 p.m., Union Theological Seminary will host a panel discussion in celebration of the 100th Anniversary Edition of Walter Rauschenbusch's seminal book Christianity and the Social Crisis. The panel will feature the following participants:

• Dr. Randall Balmer, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of American Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University
• Dr. Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
• Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, Director, Department of Religion at the Chautauqua Institution
• Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister Emeritus of The Riverside Church, and President of the Healing of the Nations Foundation

A reception will follow in the Social Hall.

The 100th anniversary edition of the book, Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church, was edited by Rauschenbusch's great-grandson Paul Raushenbush '96 and includes responses from Cornel West, Sister Joan Chittister, Stanley Hauerwas, Tony Campolo, James Forbes, Philis Trible and Jim Wallis, as well as a forward by Raushenbush and afterward by Richard Rorty.

Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was a Baptist Minister in New York's "Hell's Kitchen" and the primary theologian of the Social Gospel movement whose mission was to meet social needs through the ministrations of the institutional church.

The books editor, Paul Raushenbush '96, great-grandson of Walter Rauschenbusch, is associate dean of religious life at Princeton University. He has served as an associate minister at Riverside Church in New York City and has been involved in ministry to street youth in Seattle and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

For more information about Walter Rauschenbusch and the anniversary edition of the book visit the Harper Collins Web site.

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