Sheldon became an advocate of the late-nineteenth-century school of thought known as Christian Socialism. He pastored a church at Waterbury, Vermont, from 1886 to 1888, and in 1889 became pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover (class of 1879), and of Brown University in 1883. Education and ministry Ĭharles Sheldon was born in Wellsville, New York. The stretch of US-24 on the north side of Topeka, Kansas, between US-75 and K-4 is named the "Charles Sheldon Trafficway" in his honor. His novel In His Steps introduced the principle " What would Jesus do?", which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th century and enjoyed a revival almost one hundred years later. Charles Monroe Sheldon (Febru– February 24, 1946) was an American Congregationalist minister and a leader of the Social Gospel movement.
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