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Stockton Record, Feb. 18, 1941
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New Jr. College Instructor Highly
Praised for Religious Book
Dr, Hopkins Wins
Critics' Acclaim
One of the latest additions to
the faculty of Stockton Junior
College is the author of a book
published last November by the
Yale University Press—"The Rise
of the Social Gospel in American
Protestantism."
Instructor in the social science
division since September, Dr. C.
Howard Hopkins is a Californian
by birth and partly by education.
He was born and grew up in
Ukiah, member of a pioneer family
that crossed the plains in the
1850s. He earned his A.B. degreeat the University of Redlands and
the B.D. and Ph.D. at Yale. Be-
fore returning
to
California he
taught at the Mount Hermon
School for Boys in Massachusetts.
Last summer he was a member of
the College of the Pacific faculty.
HIGHLY PRAISED
The book has been highly
praised, notably by Dr. John
Haynes Holmes; liberal clergyman,
in the book section of the New
York Herald Tribune.
"The author writes with clarity
and charm," Dr. Holmes said. "He
can with equal facility sketch a
personality, analyze a book, de-
scribe a convention. His accuracy,
so far as I have been able to
check, is impeccable, his range ofmaterial enormous, his judgment
sound. As I peruse his book,
feel that an important job
has
been done once for all."
The reviewer for the Christian
Century, Dr.
Dwight J.
Bradley,
was moved to write: "Here is a
religious 'must book' if there everwas one.... Dr. Hopkins has here
and now assembled all of the rele-
vant material, down to its most
remotely hidden item, that is im-
portant to an understanding of thehistorical roots and background of
the kind of Christian social ideal-
ism which prevails today in the
American Protestant churches....
To have gathered the amount of
material included
in
these 327
pages ... required,
no
doubt, an
extraordinary patience, as well as
a
gift for selection verging on
genius."
AIM OF BOOK
Aim of the book is to show how
.
a
new conception of Christianity
and its social message grew out of
the impact of the industrial revo-lution on American society in the
half century after the Civil War.
Dr. Hopkins is
a
fellow of the
National COuncil on Religion in
Higher Education.
DR. C. HOWARD HOPKINS of
the Stockton Junior College fac-
ulty has written a book that is
winning the highest critical
praise.
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this is the first adequate history of the
uniquely American movement toward the
socializing and ethicizing of Protestantism
which is known as the "social gospel." Many
people believe that social Christianity was
accomplished at the opening of the twen-
tieth century by a handful of clergymen, but
Dr. Hopkins shows that it goes back to the;lose of the Civil War and that its prophets
ire legion. It came into being as a result of
modern industrial society and scientificthought in the half century between the
War and the first World War. Dr. Hop-kins describes the movement from its begin-
ling until the present when "the social gos-
pel has become a factor of permanent signifi-
:ance in the thinking of Christendom. "
`Professor Hopkins has written what we
ave long needed, an account of the develop-
ent of the Social Gospel that is both
comprehensive in scope and thorough in
documentation. All future students of the subject
will
find this book a gold mine. All who are
i
nterested in the social interpretation of
Christianity will find its clear and readable
lescription of ideas, men, and movements,indispensable for a knowledge of the back-
ground of their own thinking. "
John C. Bennett of the
Pacific School of Religion
 
This is the first adequate history of the
'Uniquely American movement toward the
ocializing and ethicizing of Protestantism
which is known as the "social gospel. Many
eople believe that social Christianity wasaccomplished at the opening of the twen-
:ieth century by a handful of clergymen, butDr. Hopkins shows that it goes back to the
:lose of the Civil War and that its prophets
xe
legion. It came into being as a result of
odern industrial society and scientifichought in the half century between the
Civil War and the first World War. Dr.
opkins
:
ins describes the movement from its begin-
ing until the present when "the social gos-
el has become a factor of permanent
significance inthethinkingof Christendom.-
Professor Hopkins has written what we
ave long needed, an account of the develop-
ent of the Social Gospel that is both corn-
•ehensive in scope and thorough in docu-
entation. All future students of the subject
ill find this book a gold mine. All who are
terested in the social interpretation of
Christianity will find its clear and readable
cription of ideas, men, and movements,
indispensable for a knowledge of the back-
ound of their own thinking. -John C. Bennett of the
Pacific School of Religion
Tennant's
Philosophical Theology
DELTON LEWIS SCUDDER
"The work of Dr. F. R. Tennant, the Cam-
bridge philosopher-theologian, is so impor-
tant in contemporary thought that this com-
petent exposition and critique will be wel-
comed by those who have not had the
opportunity to study the English scholar at
first hand. . . . Both as an appraisal of Ten-
nant' s philosophy of religion and as an origi-
nal contribution of the author's own
thought, this is a stimulating treatise.
-
Religious Book Club Bulletin
$3.00
The Presbyterian Doctrine ofChildren in the Covenant
LEWIS BEVENS SCHENCK
"In this study of the historic Calvinistic
doctrine of children in the covenant, Dr.Schenck gives a thorough survey of tradi-
tional Presbyterian theory of infant baptism
and church membership and shows the causes
of the present confusion within the Presby-terian Church regarding the religious status
of children. . . . Every reader will feel in Dr.
Schenck's debt for his able discussion of a
vital Christian problem.
-
Christendom
$2.50
Yale University Press
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