Walter Rauschenbusch (October 4, 1861-1918) was a progressive American Baptist minister, known as a leader in the social gospel movement.

From 1896 to 1897, he was a pastor at a Baptist church in the Hell's Kitchen area of Brooklyn, New York. From 1902 until his death, he was a professor at the Rochester Theological Seminary .

Books

As a key intellectual leader of the social gospel movement, Rauschenbusch wrote several books, including:

• Christianizing the social order. 1912. New York: Macmillan.
• Christianity and the social crisis. 1912. New York: Macmillan.
• A theology for the social gospel. 1917. New York: Abingdon Press.