Evangelical Social Congress

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The Evangelical Social Congress was a social-reform movement of German evangelists founded in Whitsuntide in 1890.

Various groups were united in the Congress, although, in the end, the Congress failed to set forth a united programme of "Christian socialism" (more so because people like Friedrich Naumann and Adolf Stoecker would depart from the Congress).

The Congress never carried a large membership, and was only marginal compared to the Verein für Socialpolitik, an organization that currently still exists.

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[edit] Further reading

  • Max Maurenbrecher (1903). "The Evangelical Social Congress in Germany". American Journal of Sociology 9 (1): 24-36.
  • Max Maurenbrecher (1903). "The Moral and Social Tasks of World Politics ("Imperialism")". American Journal of Sociology 6 (3): 307-315.
  • Harry Liebersohn. Religion and Industrial Society:The Protestant Social Congress in Wilhelmine Germany. American Philosophical Society. ISBN 1422374505.