Gaebelein, Frank E.2019-09-252019-09-252017-02-021982http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/162921"From its beginning, the social gospel was linked to evolution and socialism. It stressed social salvation at the expense of individual salvation. So it was not surprising that the fundamentalists opposed it. Moreover their preoccupation with predictive prophecy, especially as the First World War came, contributed to the eclipse of social concern among them. That the two groups—fundamentalist and modernist, the one promoting personal evangelism and the other the social gospel—were thoroughly polarized is evident. For example, C. H. Hopkins' definitive study, The Rise of the Social Gospel in American Protestantism, makes no mention whatever of D. L. Moody, R. A. Torrey, Billy Sunday, or even of Robert E. Speer"engWith permission of the license/copyright holderSocials ConcernAmerican ProtestantismEvangelicalsChurchChristian denominationsGlobal Church History and World ChristianityDogmaticsCreeds, confessionsPublic, political theologyArticle