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 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...

Social and political movement originating in mid-19th-century Europe. Christian socialists attempted to combine the fundamental aims of socialism with the religious and ethical convictions of Christianity, promoting cooperation over competition as a...

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

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...