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Christianity and Progress

by Harry Emerson Fosdick. 247 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Harry Emerson Fosdick

Publisher:

   Fleming H. Revell Company

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1922
Subjects:   Progress, Christianity
Table of contents
Contents
LECTURE I THE IDEA OF PROGRESS 11
LECTURE II THE NEED FOR RELIGION 49
LECTURE III THE GOSPEL AND SOCIAL PROGRESS 87
LECTURE IV PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY 127
LECTURE V THE PERILS OF PROGRESS 167
LECTURE VI PROGRESS AND GOD 207
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Christianity and Progress
Book by Harry Emerson Fosdick; Fleming H. Revell Company, 1922
Subjects: Christianity, Progress
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Book by Jessie Wiseman Gibbs; Jessie Wiseman Gibbs, 1930
Subjects: Christianity, Evolution, Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy
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Christianity Made in Japan: A Study of Indigenous Movements
Book by Mark R. Mullins; University of Hawaii, 1998
Subjects: Christian Sects--Japan, Christianity And Culture--Japan, Japan--Church History
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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