1. American Protestantism at a crossroads
2. Work and salvation in corporate America. Washington Gladden : the labor question in industrial America
Shailer Mathews : "Men must be convinced that you are sincere"
Caroline Bartlett Crane : professionalization of domesticity, domestication of profession
3. American families and the social gospel. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps : 'Half the meaning of the gentle scene is hidden"
Walter Rauschenbusch : "Bound up by a thousand ties"
The Macfarlands : a social gospel family
4. Ministers and the bully pulpit. Lyman Abbott : from the "Barbarism of individuality" to "Fraternal government"
Mary Eliza McDowell : cleanliness, godliness, reform
Bishop Francis John McConnell : herald of a humanized faith
5. The Pentecost of calamity : the great war and the social gospel. George Davis Herron : the defeat in the victory
Harry Emerson Fosdick : the challenge of the present crisis
Edward Scribner Ames : the new orthodoxy
6. A consuming faith : the social gospel and modern American culture. Charles Monroe Sheldon : "Youth, it's your innings!"
Charles Stelzle : a son of the bowery on Madison Avenue
Charles E. Jefferson : thirty years on Broadway.