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Rocky Mountain Radical: Myron W. Reed, Christian Socialist

Book information

Publisher
Univ of New Mexico Pr
Year
1997
ISBN
0826318142, 9780826318145
LCC
HX84.R43 D45 1997
Google Books ID
AbIEAQAAIAAJ
Open Library ID
OL659530M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1310256 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
214\214
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

This biography explores the life of the American West's leading Christian Socialist in the late nineteenth century. Social, cultural, religious, political, and labor history are blended to capture Reed's controversial career as a preacher and reformer. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Reed sought to create what he called a "new community," God's kingdom on earth. His sermons and lectures envisioned the federal management of critical economic resources for the common good to guarantee everyone a "comfortable life." The popular preacher tirelessly criticized exploitative capitalism and corrupt machine politics and advocated social justice, labor reform, Native American rights, women's suffrage, scientific charity, and other causes. In 1894, he championed labor at the violent Cripple Creek strike and called Jesus Christ an "anarchist," controversies that led to his resignation from the affluent First Congregational Church. At his next pulpit, the nonsectarian Broadway Temple, he preached his Christian Socialism even harder to the poor and churchless. After a lengthy illness, the fiery Reed died in 1899.

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