Samuel Zane Batten Explained

Samuel Zane Batten (August 10, 1859–June 5, 1925)^[1] was a Baptist minister and educator.^[2]

Biography

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.^[3] He was an adamant proponent of democracy for its Christian appeal.^[4] In 1908, he established the Commission on Social Service of the American Baptist Association.^[5] In 1913, he joined the faculty of what would become the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice.^[6]

He was a member of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom.^[7]

Bibliography

• 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)

Notes and References

1. https://archive.org/details/whoswho141926/page/242/mode/2up BATTEN, Samuel Zane
2. Eldon J. Eisenach, The Social And Political Thought of American Progressivism, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, p. 177 https://books.google.com/books?id=iyxQNEx9H40C&pg=PA177
3. John W. Rae, Morristown: A Military Headquarters of the American Revolution, Arcadia Publishing, 2003, p. 140 https://books.google.com/books?id=3c95MVj5440C&dq=%22Samuel+Zane+Batten%22&pg=PA147
4. Susan Curtis, A Consuming Faith: The Social Gospel and Modern American Culture, University of Missouri Press, 2001, p. 192 https://books.google.com/books?id=qmgIzBotLagC&dq=%22Samuel+Zane+Batten%22&pg=PA192
5. James H. Moorhead, World Without End: Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925, Indiana University Press, 1999, p. 116 https://books.google.com/books?id=XcQeUgBXYpcC&dq=%22Samuel+Zane+Batten%22&pg=PA116
6. Web site: A Centennial History of the School of Social Policy & Practice. repository.upenn.edu. 2023-08-17.
7. Eldon J. Eisenach, The Social And Political Thought of American Progressivism, Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, p. 190 https://books.google.com/books?id=iyxQNEx9H40C&dq=%22Samuel+Zane+Batten%22&pg=PA190