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Christianity and Progress

by Fosdick Harry Emerson

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The volume includes a series of lectures by one of the most popular spokesmen for liberal Christianity, Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878- 1969), an American clergyman, a master preacher, liberal thinker and author of 47 books. Christianity and Progress touches upon the idea of progress, the need for religion, the Gospel and social progress, progressive Christianity, the perils of progress and question of progress and God.

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...in possession of power enough to wreck the world. Never before did mankind have so much energy to handle. Multitudes ofpeople, dubious as to whether disarmament is practical, are driven likeshuttles back and forth between that doubt, upon the one side, and thecertainty, upon the other, that armament is even less practical. Thestatisticians have been at work upon this last war and their figures, like the measurements of the astronomers, grow to a size so colossalthat the tentacles of our imaginations slip off them when we try tograsp their size. The direct costs of this last war, which left uswith more and harder difficulties than we had at the beginning, wereabout $186, 000, 000, 000. Is that practical? At the beginning of 1922almost all the nations in Europe, although by taxation they werebreaking their people's financial backs, were spending far more thantheir income, and in the United States, far and away the richest nationon the planet, we faced an enormous deficit. Is that...