{"id":53899,"date":"2023-11-14T11:31:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=53899"},"modified":"2023-11-14T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T16:31:27","slug":"prof-chris-evans-quoted-in-cnn-news-article-on-social-gospel-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/prof-chris-evans-quoted-in-cnn-news-article-on-social-gospel-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Chris Evans quoted in CNN News Article on Social Gospel Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an excerpt from the <\/em>CNN\u00a0<\/em>article \u201c<\/em>There’s another Christian movement that’s changing our politics. It has nothing to do with whiteness or nationalism<\/em><\/a>\u201d by John Blake, featuring a quote by Professor Christopher Evans<\/a>, published on November 13, 2023.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Would Jesus go on strike?<\/h3>\n

Fain embodies this shift in thinking. He reached deep into the Social Gospel throughout the UAW strike, routinely deploying what one commentator\u00a0<\/span>called<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u201cstrikingly Christian rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher H. Evans,\u00a0<\/span>author<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of \u201cThe Social Gospel in American Religion: A History,\u201d said he heard the Social Gospel in Fain\u2019s UAW speeches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sounds like there\u2019s very much an emphasis on Jesus is for the worker, Jesus stands in solidarity with the laborers,\u201d said Evans, a professor of the history of Christianity at Boston University. \u201cThat\u2019s his consistent message and it runs through a lot of the tradition of the Social Gospel going back to the late 19th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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