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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. degree at the University of Redlands and the B.D. and Ph.D. at Yale. Before 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 DR. C. HOWARD HOPKINS of York Herald Tribune. the Stockton Junior College fac"The author writes with clarity ulty has written a book that is and charm," Dr. Holmes said. "He winning the highest critical can with equal facility sketch a praise. personality, analyze a book, describe a convention. His accuracy, so far as I have been able to check, is impeccable, his range of material 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 ever was one.... Dr. Hopkins has here and now assembled all of the relevant material, down to its most remotely hidden item, that is important to an understanding of the historical roots and background of the kind of Christian social idealism which prevails today in the ti 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 revolution 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.

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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 twentieth 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 scientific thought in the half century between the War and the first World War. Dr. Hopkins describes the movement from its beginling until the present when "the social gospel 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 developent 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 background 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 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:ieth 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 xe legion. It came into being as a result of modern industrial society and scientific hought in the half century between the War and the first World War. Dr. HCivil opkins ins describes the movement from its begining until the present when "the social gosel has become a factor of permanent signfcaethkoCrisendm.:

Professor Hopkins has written what we ave long needed, an account of the developent of the Social Gospel that is both corn•ehensive in scope and thorough in docuentation. 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 scription of ideas, men, and movements, indispensable for a knowledge of the backound of their own thinking. John C. Bennett of the Pacific School of Religion

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