Chicago Declaration of Social Concern
The Chicago Declaration of Social Concern (English for Chicago Declaration on Social Responsibility ) is considered an early call for evangelical Christians to devote more attention to social problems.
The declaration calls on evangelical Christians to commit themselves sustainably to social engagement. According to this, evangelicals should stand up against social injustice and become more involved in social projects. The Declaration of Social Concern was written during a November 1973 evangelical leadership meeting at a YMCA hotel on South Wabash Avenue in Chicago. The declaration was signed by 53 people. The meeting was organized by Ronald James Sider .
The declaration contains a commitment that evangelical American Christians share responsibility for social, ethnic and economic injustice, militarism and sexism . The draft declaration was written by the US politician and political scientist Paul B. Henry and revised by Stephen Charles Mott, William Pannell and Jim Wallis . The statement gained wider public attention after Jimmy Carter called himself an evangelical Christian in the 1976 presidential campaign.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ronald C. White (Jr.), C. Howard Hopkins: The Social Gospel . Religion and Reformation in Changing America. Temple University Press, Philadelphia 1976, ISBN 0-87722-083-2 , pp. 279 (English).
- ^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Chicago Declaration of Social Concern . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 152 (English).
- ↑ Richard J. Mouw: Awakening the Evangelical Conscience accessed (English), 4 February 2012