Joseph Strong

Joseph Strong (1847–1916) was an American Congregationalist minister and social theologian whose work bridged nineteenth-century revivalism and the emerging Social Gospel movement, advocating for Christian engagement with urban poverty and social reform. His influential writings, including Our Country (1885), shaped Protestant thought on American expansionism and domestic social responsibility during the Gilded Age. Strong's theological vision emphasized the moral imperative for churches to address systemic injustice, positioning him as a significant figure in the development of progressive religious thought in late nineteenth-century America.