Quote#Hope
Primitive Christianity cherished an ardent hope of a radically new…
Quote byWalter Rauschenbusch · 1861–1918
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 143.
English (original)
Primitive Christianity cherished an ardent hope of a radically new era, and within its limits sought to realize a social life on a new moral basis. Thus Christianity as an historical movement was launched with all the purpose and hope, all the impetus and power, of a great revolutionary movement, pledged to change the world-as-it-is into the world-as-it-ought-to-be.
— Walter Rauschenbusch
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