Christian Ethics in the Inner City
Abstract
This thesis is an attempt to show the traditional role
of the Jewish-Christian religion as balancing social inequalities
through man's fulfillment of his responsibilities to his
neighbor. Both the Old Testament prophets and Jesus emphasized
the socio-ethical purpose of religion, and promised damnation
to those who did not participate. The liberals, such as Rauschenbusch,
and the modernists, such as Mathews, utilized the
prophets and Jesus in their attempt to prove that religion is
an agency through which society approaches perfection. In the
eyes of these men, getting rid of injustices constituted perfection.