Walter Rauschenbusch

The Reverend Walter Rauschenbusch
Born	(1861-10-04)October 4, 1861 Rochester, New York, US
Died	July 25, 1918(1918-07-25) (aged 56) Rochester, New York, US
Spouse	Pauline Rother ​ (m. 1893)​ [1]
Parents	Augustus Rauschenbusch Caroline Rump
Ecclesiastical career
Religion	Christianity (Baptist)
Ordained	1886[2]
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Rochester Rochester Theological Seminary
Influences	W. D. P. Bliss[3] Horace Bushnell[3] Richard T. Ely[4] Henry George[5] Washington Gladden[6] Adolf von Harnack[7] Johann Gottfried Herder[8] Immanuel Kant[8] Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz[8] Albrecht Ritschl[9] Frederick William Robertson[3] Friedrich Schleiermacher[10] Josiah Strong[6] Johannes Weiss[8]
Academic work
Discipline	Theology history
School or tradition	Christian socialism[11] Social Gospel
Institutions	Rochester Theological Seminary
Notable works	A Theology for the Social Gospel (1917)
Influenced	Frederic M. Hudson[12] Martin Luther King Jr. Lucy Randolph Mason James McClendon Reinhold Niebuhr Richard Rorty Norman Thomas Desmond Tutu

Walter Rauschenbusch^[a] (1861–1918) was an American theologian and Baptist pastor who taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch was a key figure in the Social Gospel and single tax movements that flourished in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty^[13][14] and the great-grandfather of Paul Raushenbush.^[15]

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