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.

Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was one of the most influential preachers in the twentieth century. He believed every sermon ought ask and answer some question that genuinely troubles individuals or the societies of which they are a part. Answers to Real Problems gathers several significant sermons from Fosdick's long ministry. The selection is rooted in current needs. This collection presents him asking and answering questions that still weigh--or ought to weigh--on the minds of people today. Here is one of America's finest preachers talking about war, nationalism, the relationship between liberals and conservatives, the plight of the church, public ethics, private morality, and more.

This volume examines the persuasive ministry of the Reverend Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, analyzing his delivery, style, invention, and persuasion strategies. It is the first book to review Fosdick's oratory and explain his process of creating persuasive, effective sermons. It combines speech texts and an extensive bibliography with a critical interpretation of his famous homilies and addresses and it brings together in one concise text a definitive alphabetical calendar of speeches, a chronology of sermons keyed to his numerous books, and a detailed bibliography of works by and about Fosdick. This fascinating study provides a valuable new research tool in the study of rhetoric. From Puritan times to the present, religious rhetoric has played an important role in the political and social life of the United States and has occasionally revealed the highest and lowest attainments of Americans. This volume, the second in a series of book-length studies on great American orators, examines the persuasive ministry of the Reverend Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and analyzes his delivery, style, invention, and persuasive strategies. It is the first book to review Fosdick's oratory and explain his process of creating persuasive, effective sermons. It combines speech texts and an extensive bibliography with a critical interpretation of his famous homilies and addresses and it brings together in one concise text a definitive alphabetical calendar of speeches, a chronology of sermons keyed to his numerous books, and a detailed bibliography of works by and about Fosdick. Of special note is the inclusion of the famous Shall the Fundamentalists Win? sermon, with never-before-published additions and subtractions, and the ad lib additions and deletions from speech text and recordings of the Handling Life's Second-Bests sermon. This fascinating study provides a valuable new research tool in the study of rhetoric.

Realist and idealist, by E. D. Jones.--Harry Emerson Fosdick: titan of the pulpit, by E. D. Jones.--Harry Emerson Fosdick: a study in sources of effectiveness, by R. C. McCall.--Harry Emerson Fosdick: the growth of a great preacher, by R. D. Clark.--Selected bibliography: (p. 181-185)--Harry Emerson Fosdick and the techniques of organization, by E. H. Linn.--Structural analysis of the sermons of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, by G. S. Macvaugh.--Harry Emerson Fosdick: the methods of a master, by C. F. Kemp.--The rhetorical theory of Harry Emerson Fosdick, by L. Crocker.--Henry Ward Beecher and Harry Emerson Fosdick, by L. Crocker.--Phillips Brooks and Harry Emerson Fosdick, by L. Crocker.--A rhetorical analysis of Harry Emerson Fosdick's sermon, "The power to see it through," by L. Crocker.--Studies in the preaching of Harry Emerson Fosdick (bibliographical: p. 274-275).