Question

What was the belier of many Progressives who followed Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel program?

Answer 1

They believed that poor people should be helped in the name of God

Explanation:

Social Gospel, religious social-reform movement prominent in the United States from about 1870 to 1920. Advocates of the movement interpreted the Kingdom of God as requiring social as well as individual salvation and sought the betterment of industrialized society through application of the biblical principles of charity and justice.

The Social Gospel was especially promulgated among liberal Protestant ministers, including Washington Gladden and Lyman Abbott, and was shaped by the persuasive works of Charles Monroe Sheldon (In His Steps; “What Would Jesus Do?”; 1897) and Walter Rauschenbusch (Christianity and the Social Crisis; 1907). Labour reforms—including abolition of child labour.

Source:Encyclopaedia Britannica