In fact, when Walter was four years old his mother took the kids to Germany without her husband, where they stayed for four years. His mother and father were living in what was, by all accounts, an extremely unhappy marriage. His father was a professor at the Baptist Seminary.
Walter was the first Rauschenbusch to be born in America (1861), and he grew up in Rochester, NY. Six generations of Rauschenbusch men before him had been pastors including his father August, who moved to America & converted to the Baptist Denomination (not exactly pleasing his German Lutheran family). Walter Rauschenbusch’s family came from Germany in the mid 1800s. I even wrote my first book, in part, as an attempt to reinterpret Rauschenbusch from a post-liberal point of view. But, the book so captured my imagination that I read everything of Rauschenbusch I could get my hands on. I had never heard of Rauschenbusch, so my plan was to hurry through it so I could get on to Karl Barth or Reinhold Niebuhr, guys I cared about. In one of my favorite seminary courses we were assigned the book A Theology for the Social Gospel, by Walter Rauschenbusch.
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