Walter Rauschenbusch was born on October 4, 1861 in Rochester, New York. Rauschenbusch was the son of a Lutheran missionary to German immigrants in the United States. He graduated from the Rochester Free Academy and then studied for four years in Germany, returning in 1883 to simultaneously finish at the University of Rochester and begin seminary training. On June 1, 1886, he was ordained a minister of the Second German Baptist Church in New York City, where he became aware of social problems from the personal distress he encountered in a depressed neighborhood and from the mayoral campaign by the economist Henry George.
Even more influential were two young Baptist preachers, Leighton Williams and Nathaniel Schmidt. With Rauschenbusch they formed a Society of Jesus, later expanded into the Brotherhood of the Kingdom. Rauschenbusch turned to the idea of the Church as an institution for a temporal Kingdom of God to answer the problems of the working poor. He decided that to live......

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