Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet

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Oxford University Press, 21 févr. 1985 - 624 pages
A major figure in American religious and cultural history, Fosdick was famous as a preacher, a pacifist and a champion of civil rights. He was also the author of forty-seven books.
 

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1 Young Harry of Western New York
3
Years of Doubt and Decision
29
A Time of Personal Crisis and Ministerial Training
43
Widening Fame in a Patrician Pastorate
55
The Great Crusade 19171918
74
A Baptist Preacher in a New York City Presbyterian Pulpit
93
The Presbyterian Fundamentalists Drive Fosdick from Their Fold
112
The Baptist Battle and Mr Rockefellers Resolution
150
The Conceptualization of Preachable Sermons
333
The Preparation and Presentation of Preachable Sermons
351
Radios National Vespers Hour Reaches Millions
379
A Faith That Could Not Be Shaken
389
A Ministers Response to the Disintegration of the Bourgeois Synthesis
418
A Ministers Response to the Crashing of A Righteous Empire
441
A Ministers Response to Americas Deepest Sin
449
An Evolving Social Gospel from the Age of Rauschenbusch to the Age of Niebuhr
464

9 Further Cannonading in the Turbulent Twenties
174
10 A Pilgrimage to Palestine and the Abrasive Aftermath with American Zionists
179
11 A Church Is Raised on The Hill
200
The Riverside Church Fellowship
214
Worship in The Riverside Church
228
The Riverside Church Enterprise
243
A Protestant Preacher as Confessor and Counselor
251
A Protestant Preacher as Husband Father and Friend
285
Thirtyeight Years as Union Seminary Professor
319
Does Pacifism Have a Place in a World of Hitlers and Stalins?
490
A Peacemaker in Wars Hot and Cold 19411969
533
Saying Farewell to Riverside and Union
548
A Retirement of Activities and Accomplishment
555
30 Awaiting the Day of New Beginnings
567
Essay on Sources
571
Index
593
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