Quote#God & Faith
The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society…
Quote byWalter Rauschenbusch · 1861–1918
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Introduction, p.xiii.
English (original)
The essential purpose of Christianity was to transform human society into the kingdom of God by regenerating all human relations and reconstituting them in accordance with the will of God. ...I have never met with any previous attempt to give a satisfactory historical explanation of this failure.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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