Here are your show notes for today’s class: [NOTE: This will be a long, complicated discussion. Please feel free to revisit the video as often as necessary and/or take this lesson in junks.]

THE SOCIAL GOSPEL

How the social gospel movement explains the roots of today’s religious left

The Social Gospel vs. Personal Salvation: A Late Nineteenth-Century Case Study— Walter Rauschenbusch and A.B. Simpson

The Social Gospel and the Progressive Era

Social Gospel — Britannica

Social Gospel — Wikipedia

What is the social gospel?

The Social Gospel (Historic — Slide Presentation)

The Social Gospel (Modern — Slide Presentation)

Social Darwinism and The Social Gospel (Slide Presentation)

Social Darwinism: Philosophy or Justification? (Slide Presentation)

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COLLECTIVE SALVATION — ARGUMENTS: PRO and CON

What is collective salvation?

Sin and Salvation are Collective

The Heresy of ‘Individualism’?

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THE COLLECTIVE vs THE INDIVIDUAL IN SCRIPTURE

What is collective salvation?

What does the Bible say about collectivism?

What the Bible says about Collectivism

Individualism vs. collectivism—what does the Bible say?

What the Bible says about Individualism

What the Bible says about Individual Responsibility

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WHY THE CONFUSION?

Election and Salvation are NOT Synonyms

[this is the key to understanding the issue/confusion over it]

https://youtu.be/njDBMW7tlFU

Election Dr. Michael S. Heiser

https://youtu.be/QQ5n4HCiM9w

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JOHN LOCKE vs THOMAS HOBBS

Thomas Hobbes (Britannica)

John Locke (Britannica)

Hobbes vs. Locke: Essential Concepts (Slide Presentation)

Thomas Hobbes and John Locke (Slide Presentation)

John Locke Vs. Thomas Hobbes Conflicting views of (Slide Presentation)

Hobbes vs. Locke (Slide Presentation)

[NOTE: this is a non-Bible believing explanation of Hobbes vs. Locke which leads to some series Spiritual errors, but — in general — it is an acceptable ‘secular’ explanation of the issue.]

https://youtu.be/N2LVcu01QEU

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RECOMMENDED READING

American Progressivism: A Reader

Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings

Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (American Intellectual Culture)

America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism

Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom