Author: Gary Gunderson
Date: January 28, 1999
Location: Pacific School of Religion (PSR), Berkeley, CA
Background: Dr. Gunderson presented this paper as the Earl Lectures at PSR. The theme of the 1999 series was Building Healthy Communities: Partners in Faith and Wellness. Dr. Gunderson was joined by Dr. Nancy Eisland (former Professor of the Sociology of Religion at Candler School of Theology and A. Cecil Williams, pastor emeritus (then pastor) of Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco.
Dr. Gunderson’s paper examined the development of the Social Gospel movement in the early decades of the twentieth century and argued that the contemporary movements in faith and public health are the contemporary expressions of the deepest commitments of this movement.
