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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (637 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Young Harry of Western New York; 2. Colgate University: Years of Doubt and Decision; 3. Union Theological Seminary: A Time of Personal Crisis and Ministerial Training; 4. The Montclair Ministry: Widening Fame in a Patrician Pastorate; 5. ""The Challenge of the Present Crisis"": The Great Crusade, 1917-1918; 6. ""Once It Was Beecher and Brooks, Now It Is Fosdick"": A Baptist Preacher in a New York City Presbyterian Pulpit; 7. The War Within: The Presbyterian Fundamentalists Drive Fosdick from Their Fold; 8. The War Within: The Baptist Battle and Mr. Rockefeller's Resolution

9. Further Cannonading in the Turbulent Twenties 10. ""A Pilgrimage to Palestine"" and the Abrasive Aftermath with American Zionists; 11. A Church Is Raised on ""The Hill""; 12. ""You Are the United Church in Local Guise"": The Riverside Church Fellowship; 13. ""We Have Maintained the Adoration of God and the Proclamation of the Gospel"": Worship in The Riverside Church; 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

15. ""On Being a Real Person"": A Protestant Preacher as Confessor and Counselor 16. ""If Gold Rust, What Then Will Iron Do?"": A Protestant Preacher as Husband, Father, and Friend; 17. ""Gladly Do We Teach"": Thirty-eight Years as Union Seminary Professor; 18. ""And How Shall They Hear Without a Preacher?"": The Conceptualization of Preachable Sermons; 19. ""Sweating Blood"": The Preparation and Presentation of Preachable Sermons; 20. ""The Dean of All Ministers of the Air"": Radio's ""National Vespers Hour"" Reaches Millions

21. ""The Church Must Go Beyond Modernism"": A Faith That Could Not Be Shaken 22. The Passing of Victorian America: A Minister's Response to the Disintegration of the Bourgeois Synthesis; 23. The Passing of Protestant America: A Minister's Response to the Crashing of ""A Righteous Empire""; 24. Racial Justice: A Minister's Response to America's Deepest Sin; 25. Social Justice: An Evolving Social Gospel from the Age of Rauschenbusch to the Age of Niebuhr; 26. ""Can Satan Cast Out Satan?"": Does Pacifism Have a Place in a World of Hitlers and Stalins?

27. ""And the War Came"" and the Wars Continued: A Peacemaker in Wars Hot and Cold, 1941-196928. The Decision To Step Down, 1946: Saying Farewell to Riverside and Union; 29. ""Leisure Is the Time for Doing Something Useful"": A Retirement of Activities and Accomplishment; 30. ""Awaiting the Day of New Beginnings""; Essay on Sources; Index;

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliography: p. 571-592 and index.

ISBN:

1-280-43919-X

1-4237-3838-1

0-19-536523-2

1-60129-580-4

OCLC:

171570546