Christian socialism is not an organized movement or a specific ideology or body of doctrine (though there have been groups, for example in the early Labour Party, which adopted the name). It is a broad descriptive term for individuals or groups, or for...

The intellectual and practical endeavour to apply Christian social principles to an industrial and competitive society It is particularly associated in England with Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–72) and Charles Kingsley (1819–75) who...

A nineteenth-century Christian movement that was responsible for many of the early adult education developments. See social...

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. The richness of the Christian vision of God's transcendence and presence, the range of constituencies to which it appeals, and the variety of contexts into which it has moved have produced an enormous variety of...

Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two things as being interconnected. This category can include Liberation theology and the doctrine of the social...

By Harold T. Lewis. The New Church's Teaching Series. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 2001. xii + 162 pp. $11.95 (paper). In Christian Social Witness, the tenth volume of The New Church's Teaching Series, Harold Lewis encourages a church that represents Anglicanism in general...

The British are more tolerant than Americans of the religious affiliations of their politicians, particularly Labor Party leader Tony Blair and his public declaration of Christianity. The UK media seriously treats the debate between the Labor Party and the Conservative Party over Christian socialism....