Table of Contents

Foreword by Bernard K. Duffy
A Preacher Preaching
Fosdick vs. the Fundamentalists
Quo Vadis: God of War or Peace?
Reforming the Reform: Going Beyond Modernism
Preaching at Riverside
Collected Sermons and Speeches
Chronology of Speeches
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

HALFORD R. RYAN is Professor of Public Speaking at Washington and Lee University, Virginia. He is the author of American Rhetoric from Roosevelt to Reagan: A Collection of Speeches and Critical Essays, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Rhetorical Presidency (Greenwood Press,1988). He has contributed extensively to the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Speaker and Gavel.

Reviews

?. . . Ryan fills a niche in Fosdick studies by providing a calendar of Fosdick's sermons, a chronology of his speeches, and a thorough bibliography. . . . Comtemporary preachers - fundamentalist, modernist, or otherwise - can benefit from studying Fosdick's artistry with words. Ryan's book is a fine place to start. This is a volume theoolgical libraries ought to have and preachers would be wise to read.?-Southwest Journal of Theology

?. . . Ryan's work shows long toil in these sources. The book is a stimulus to further research on this fascinating man whom one contemporary called a "well-scrubbed butcher boy."?-The Journal of Religion

?. . . The Great American Orators series attempts to provide insights into the history of public address in America. Ryan's book achieves the goal admirably. It provides a new look at a neglected orator as well as furnishing an example of solid criticism for students of public address. Hopefully, later additions to the Great American Orators series will live up to the standard of excellence set by Halford R. Ryan. If they do, the series will indeed achieve Ryan and Duffy's goal of supplying new understanding of the history and criticism of American public address.?-Quarterly Journal of Speech

?Halford Ryan is professor of public speaking at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. This volume, which follows the plan of other volumes in the series, focuses on the orator Harry Emerson Fosdick (1879-1969), one of the outstanding preachers in the history of the United States, especially on his status as a rhetorician, a practitioner of the art of persuasive discourse. Part I is a critical analysis of Fosdick and his speeches. Part II contains: 1) five of his sermons or speeches; 2) a calendar of this sermons; 3) a calendar of his secular addresses; 4) a bibliography of manuscript collections, audio and video collections, books, articles, and other pieces by Fosdick; and books, articles, and dissertations about him.?-Theology Digest

." . . Ryan fills a niche in Fosdick studies by providing a calendar of Fosdick's sermons, a chronology of his speeches, and a thorough bibliography. . . . Comtemporary preachers - fundamentalist, modernist, or otherwise - can benefit from studying Fosdick's artistry with words. Ryan's book is a fine place to start. This is a volume theoolgical libraries ought to have and preachers would be wise to read."-Southwest Journal of Theology

." . . Ryan's work shows long toil in these sources. The book is a stimulus to further research on this fascinating man whom one contemporary called a "well-scrubbed butcher boy.""-The Journal of Religion

." . . The Great American Orators series attempts to provide insights into the history of public address in America. Ryan's book achieves the goal admirably. It provides a new look at a neglected orator as well as furnishing an example of solid criticism for students of public address. Hopefully, later additions to the Great American Orators series will live up to the standard of excellence set by Halford R. Ryan. If they do, the series will indeed achieve Ryan and Duffy's goal of supplying new understanding of the history and criticism of American public address."-Quarterly Journal of Speech

"Halford Ryan is professor of public speaking at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. This volume, which follows the plan of other volumes in the series, focuses on the orator Harry Emerson Fosdick (1879-1969), one of the outstanding preachers in the history of the United States, especially on his status as a rhetorician, a practitioner of the art of persuasive discourse. Part I is a critical analysis of Fosdick and his speeches. Part II contains: 1) five of his sermons or speeches; 2) a calendar of this sermons; 3) a calendar of his secular addresses; 4) a bibliography of manuscript collections, audio and video collections, books, articles, and other pieces by Fosdick; and books, articles, and dissertations about him."-Theology Digest