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Personal Faith and Social Action: Partners or Adversaries?
http://catalystresources.org/issues/264strong.html
Douglas M. Strong expounds the evangelical view of Christian social action and criticism of social gospel.
Evangelism and Social Responsibility: An Evangelical Commitment
http://www.lausanne.org/grand-rapids-1982/lop-21.html
Paper from the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and the World Evangelical Fellowship develops an evangelical position on Christianity and social responsibility as an alternative to the social gospel. Includes criticism of social gospel.
Capitalism in the Gilded Age: Social Darwinism
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h843.html
Short article on a secular philosophical position opposing the social gospel movement.
Capitalism in the Gilded Age: Gospel of Wealth
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h849.html
Explanation of the theoretical position opposing the social gospel movement.