Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company. The building was vacant during the late 1960s and some of the windows were stolen including part of the original Rauschenbusch window. When he attended Rochester Theological Seminary his early teachings were challenged.

He was also the maternal grandfather of the influential philosopher Richard Rorty. Walter Rauschenbusch (October 4 1861 – July 25 1918) was a Christian theologian and Baptist pastor. He was a key figure in the Social Gospel movement which flouriWalter Rauschenbuschd in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.