According to Shailer Mathews, a leading light of the Chicago School’s liberal theology, “In [the] contrast between the teaching of Jesus and the teaching of Nietzsche we are confronting the fundamental antithesis that lies in the world of values.”43 In Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Walter Rauschenbusch likewise described Nietzsche’s philosophy as the “direct out-growth” of the social world of industrialization, speculating that there exists “an intimate causal connection between the industrial system which evolves the modern captain of industry and the philosophy of Nietzsche
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