Samuel Zane Batten
Samuel Zane Batten (August 10, 1859–June 5, 1925)[1] was a Baptist minister and educator.[2]
Biography[edit]
Batten graduated from Bucknell University in 1885, and served as a Baptist minister in Morristown, New Jersey, where he preached against alcohol consumption and gambling.[3] He was an adamant proponent of democracy for its Christian appeal.[4] In 1908, he established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association.[5] In 1913, he joined the faculty of what would become the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.[6]
He was a member of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom.[7]
Bibliography[edit]
- The New Citizenship: Christian Character in its Biblical Ideas, Sources, and Relations (1898)
- The Social Task of Christianity: A Summons to the New Crusade (1909)
- The Christian State: The State, Democracy, and Christianity (1909)
- A Working Temperance Program (1910)
- The Industrial Menace to the Home (1914)
- The Moral Meaning of War: A Prophetic Interpretation (1918)
- The New World Order (1919)
- If America Fail: Our National Mission and Our Possible Future (1922)
- Building a Community (1922)
- Why Not Try Christianity? (1923)
References[edit]
- ^ BATTEN, Samuel Zane, in Who's Who in America (1926 edition); p. 242; via archive.org
- ^ Eldon J. Eisenach, The Social And Political Thought of American Progressivism, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, p. 177 [1]
- ^ John W. Rae, Morristown: A Military Headquarters of the American Revolution, Arcadia Publishing, 2003, p. 140 [2]
- ^ Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, University of Missouri Press, 2001, p. 192 [3]
- ^ James H. Moorhead, World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925, Indiana University Press, 1999, p. 116 [4]
- ^ "A Centennial History of the School of Social Policy & Practice". repository.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-17.
- ^ Eldon J. Eisenach, The Social And Political Thought of American Progressivism, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, p. 190 [5]
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