Civic Gospel

Civic Gospel

The Civic Gospel was a philosophy of municipal activism that emerged in Birmingham, England in the mid- to late- 19th century. Tracing its origins to the preaching of George Dawson,[1] who preached that "a town is a solemn organism through which shall flow, and in which shall be shaped, all the highest, loftiest and truest ends of man's moral nature",[2] it reached its culmination in the mayoralty of Joseph Chamberlain between 1873 and 1876.[3]

References

  1. ^ Briggs 1963, p. 195
  2. ^ Briggs 1963, p. 196
  3. ^ Briggs 1963, p. 197

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