Samuel Zane Batten

Samuel Zane Batten (1859–1925) was a Baptist minister and educator.^[1]

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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.^[2] He was an adamant proponent of democracy for its Christian appeal.^[3] In 1908, he established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association.^[4] In 1913, he joined the faculty of what would become the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.^[5]

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)

^ 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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