For God and the people; prayers of the social awakening, by Walter Rauschenbusch
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For God and the people; prayers of the social awakening, by Walter Rauschenbusch- Amazon Sales Rank: #3857609 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-15
- Released on: 2015-06-15
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .31" w x 8.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
About the Author Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was a Christian theologian and Baptist minister, and a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the United States.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A 100 year old prayerbook that speaks to us today By Michael Foret Walter Rauschenbusch can be described with many adjectives, because he did so much in so many different fields of endeavor. He was a pastor, seminary professor, theologian, writer, and speaker, among other things. But all of those roles, jobs, and works of his stemmed from what I'm sure he thought of as his most important characteristic, that he was a child of God who tried to be a faithful pilgrim. His entire life (1861-1918) was steeped in faith, Scripture, and church: he was not only a second-generation pastor, he was also a second-generation seminary professor. That he grew up speaking German no doubt helped, given that so much of the important nineteenth-century theology was written in German. His writings and his life demonstrate that his faith was not simply an intellectual exercise, but also a deep pilgrimage of heart and soul.This little book begins with a preface that lays out, in very simple language, Rauschenbusch's belief in what would come to be known, largely due to his writing and speaking, as the “social gospel.” He believed that what he called the “new social purpose,” that is, the growth and effects of the new economic system (of industrial capitalism) “is enlarging and transforming our whole conception of the meaning of Christianity.” Old “feelings” as he put it no longer stirred people religiously as they once had, even the most fundamental ones, but new feelings did. He looked around and saw that while some were doing very well under the new system, the common people were suffering, and Christians felt compassion for those suffering. Those feelings needed to be expressed in the churches but seldom were, mostly based on innate conservatism and attachment to old liturgical prayers and forms. Even many of those who felt the compassion would never do anything about them within the church. To encourage those and others then, he wrote new prayers to address the new problems and the new feelings of a very new and different age from those that had gone on before.Within Protestant and Reformed Christianity, many individuals, churches, and even whole denominations, in fact, had pretty much done away with set prayers entirely except for the Lord's Prayer. As a Baptist, Rauschenbusch understood that very well. Although he does not say so, I am guessing that both as a pastor serving rough areas of New York City and then as a teacher in Rochester he saw those he was trying to minister to and teach struggling with how to understand what was going on around them and thus how to pray about it. He notes here, moreover, that many Christians had given up praying for a variety of reasons. He believed prayer was needed for two important reasons. First, it prepared the faithful for battle, spiritual warfare against evil, in whatever form. But second, public prayer would also improve us individually and collectively.Before he lay his new prayers before the people, however, he took the good example of his greatest Teacher and gave his readers a lesson in how to pray better. In “The Social Meaning of the Lord's Prayer,” Rauschenbusch explains to his readers that this most famous of prayers is very much “part of the heritage of social Christianity” that was “charged with social consciousness.” He even went so far as to state that it was “the great charter of all social prayers.” He analyzes it as a community prayer of solidarity, but notes that while it has very personal elements, its true context is the kingdom of God. He even notes ironically that, even though Jesus specifically denounces not only praying with many words, but also with vain repetitions, that the Lord's Prayer has become the most repeated prayer ever.The second part of the book is divided into five sections of varying size: morning, noon, and night; praise and thanksgiving; for social groups and classes; prayers of wrath; and the progress of humanity. These are truly prayers from the heart for people who are sometimes deep into the nitty-gritty of modern life. They address, among other things, war, alcoholism, working mothers, child labor, kids living on the streets, unemployment, immigration, economic exploitation of the poor by the rich, and various forms of interpersonal abuse. But there are also prayers for people in various professions and walks of life, and for the church and government . The prayer “For Our World” would warm the heart of any good Christian environmentalist! It concludes with “The Author's Prayer,” which first gives thanks to God, asks for pardon if anything in his book offended God out of ignorance or weakness, asks for protection against harming God's cause, and ends with a statement of surrender to God's will. Rauschenbusch notes in the preface that some of the prayers had been published over a number of months in the _American Magazine_' and that the response to those prayers had encouraged him in this endeavor. He also noted gratefully that two of them had been given to him by friends who had given permission for them to be included in the book.Walter Rauschenbusch did indeed do something new here. With _For God and the People_ he gave people models of prayer for occasions and situations for which they had none. But in doing so, he also gave them models that they could use in other situations and for other occasions as well. But more importantly, I think, he also gave them permission to think and act in new ways as well. And that is no small thing. I have a strong feeling that a lot of people wore out a lot of copies of this little book. After all, within half a decade of its publication World War I began, and two decades later began the Great Depression. People needed a lot of prayer indeed.I strongly recommend this book. The preface gives the reader insight into what the social gospel meant to Walter Rauschenbusch, and to his critique of the socioeconomic system that he saw hurting so many people so badly. His short essay on the Lord's Prayer made me look at it differently and to appreciate it even more. And sometimes, as with the Psalms, I think we pray better when we pray together. I wish more people would get to know this book, and then read more Walter Rauschenbusch.
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