American Decades
A Guide to Understanding the Bible
Guidebook
By: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Date: 1938
Source: Fosdick, Harry Emerson. A Guide to Understanding the Bible. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1938. Available online at http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showb... ; website home page: http://www.religion-online.org (accessed February 10, 2003).
About the Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969), was born in Buffalo, New York, and became a Baptist minister in 1903. After a professorship at Union Theological Seminary, he served as pastor of Riverside Church in New York City from 1925 to 1946. During his tenure at the church he influenced the development of Christian theology and became a well-known author, lecturer, and religious radio broadcaster. His liberal...
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1930's Religion Primary Sources
- Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education
- Casti Connubii
- Roosevelt and/or Ruin
- Letter to the Nation's Clergy and Their Responses
- "Pacifism"
- Divini Redemptoris
- "The Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism"
- "Civilizations Have Perished"
- "Coughlin, the Jews, and Communism"
- Federal Writers' Project Interviews on Religion
- A Guide to Understanding the Bible
- "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism"
- "This Is My Task"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
