Harry Emerson Fosdick
The Meaning of Faith
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664577900
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I Faith and Life's Adventure
CHAPTER II Faith a Road to Truth
CHAPTER III Faith in the Personal God
CHAPTER V Faith's Intellectual Difficulties
CHAPTER VI Faith's Greatest Obstacle
CHAPTER IX Faith in the Earnest God
CHAPTER X Faith in Christ the Savior: Forgiveness
CHAPTER XI Faith in Christ the Savior: Power
CHAPTER XII The Fellowship of Faith
SCRIPTURE PASSAGES USED IN THE DAILY READINGS
SOURCES OF PRAYERS USED IN THE DAILY READINGS
PREFACE
A book on faith has been for years my hope and intention. And now it comes to final form during the most terrific war men ever waged, when faith is sorely tried and deeply needed. Direct discussion of the war has been purposely avoided; the issues here presented are not confined to those which the war suggests; but many streams of thought within the book flow in channels that the war has worn. Since the conflict had to come, I am glad for this book's sake that it was not written until it had Europe's holocaust for a background.
Against one misunderstanding the reader should be guarded. If anyone approaches these studies, expecting to find detailed and special views of Christian doctrine, he will be disappointed. The perplexities of mind and life and the affirmations of religious faith, with which these studies deal, lie far beneath sectarian doctrinal controversy. I have tried to make clear a foundation on which faith might build its thoughts of Christian truth. And while I have spoken freely of God and Christ and the Spirit, of the Cross and life eternal, I have not intended or endeavored a complete theology. I have had in mind that elemental matter of which Carlyle was thinking when he wrote: "The thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain concerning his vital relations to the mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion."
As in "The Meaning of Prayer," the Scripture has been used for the basis and interpretation of the daily thought. The Bible is our supreme record of