Harry Emerson Fosdick : preacher, pastor, prophet / Robert Moats Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Robert Moats.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson.

Baptists--United States--Clergy--Biography.

Baptists.

United States.

Clergy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 608 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Contents:

1. Young Harry of Western New York 3

2. Colgate University: Years of Doubt and Decision 29

3. Union Theological Seminary: A Time of Personal Crisis and Ministerial Training 43

4. The Montclair Ministry: Widening Fame in a Patrician Pastorate 55

5. "The Challenge of the Present Crisis": The Great Crusade, 1917-1918 74

6. "Once It Was Beecher and Brooks, Now It Is Fosdick": A Baptist Preacher in a New York City Presbyterian Pulpit 93

7. The War Within: The Presbyterian Fundamentalists Drive Fosdick from Their Fold 112

8. The War Within: The Baptist Battle and Mr. Rockefeller's Resolution 150

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

12. "You Are the United Church in Local Guise": The Riverside Church Fellowship 214

13. "We Have Maintained the Adoration of God and the Proclamation of the Gospel": Worship in The Riverside Church 228

14. "The God That Answereth by Christian Education, by Friendly Fellowship, by Community Service, by Money Given to Good Causes, Here and Around the World, Let Him Be God": The Riverside Church Enterprise 243

15. "On Being a Real Person": A Protestant Preacher as Confessor and Counselor 251

16. "If Gold Rust, What Then Will Iron Do?": A Protestant Preacher as Husband, Father, and Friend 285

17. "Gladly Do We Teach": Thirty-eight Years as Union Seminary Professor 319

18. "And How Shall They Hear Without a Preacher?": The Conceptualization of Preachable Sermons 333

19. "Sweating Blood": The Preparation and Presentation of Preachable Sermons 351

20. "The Dean of All Ministers of the Air": Radio's "National Vespers Hour" Reaches Millions 379

21. "The Church Must Go Beyond Modernism": A Faith That Could Not Be Shaken 389

22. The Passing of Victorian America: A Minister's Response to the Disintegration of the Bourgeois Synthesis 418

23. The Passing of Protestant America: A Minister's Response to the Crashing of "A Righteous Empire" 441

24. Racial Justice: A Minister's Response to America's Deepest Sin 449

25. Social Justice: An Evolving Social Gospel from the Age of Rauschenbusch to the Age of Niebuhr 464

26. "Can Satan Cast Out Satan?": Does Pacifism Have a Place in a World of Hitlers and Stalins? 490

27. "And the War Came" and the Wars Continued: A Peacemaker in Wars Hot and Cold, 1941-1969 533

28. The Decision To Step Down, 1946: Saying Farewell to Riverside and Union 548

29. "Leisure Is the Time for Doing Something Useful": A Retirement of Activities and Accomplishment 555

30. "Awaiting the Day of New Beginnings" 567.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 571-592.

ISBN:

0195035127 :

OCLC:

10696819