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| author |
Kelly Hartwick
| | title |
Analyzing Christianity and Social Justice Through Christian Social Movements
| | abstract |
I want to examine the political and economic connections between Christianity and social justice
as they appear today in contemporary social movements such as Poor People's Campaign: A
Moral Revival, as well as important past movements such as the Social Gospel Movement in the
early twentieth century and the later twentieth century's Liberation Theology movement
(especially as it appeared in Sandinista politics in Nicaragua). What I seek to do is to draw out
the lines of commonality amongst all these combinations of Christianity and social justice to
show how they focus on structural rather than individual critique and solutions. I will establish a
history of capitalism parallel to the emergence of these social movements. I will read carefully
the foundational texts of all of these social movements, to demonstrate that Christianity and
social justice are indeed compatible. Furthermore, the social movements working in that
intersection between Christianity and socialism today are worth paying attention to because they
move us beyond a peculiar deadlock in American politics whereby faith is correlated with
conservatism, and social justice with secularism.
| | school |
The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University
| | degree |
B.A. (2020)
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| advisor |
Maliha Safri
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| full text | KHartwick.pdf |
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