The Meaning of Faith

Résumé du livre

Hundreds of thousands have been helped and inspired by Harry Emerson Fosdick's messages on Prayer and Faith. They will find this book timeless, virile, impressive - and equally appealing in its human interest and spirit of Christian leadership.

The NEED for 'The Meaning of Faith"

Each generation sees some new aspect of Christianity lifted to the front. Today the terrific problems handed to us are calling for a type of Christianity which shall express itself in serviceable and inspired faith.

In "The Meaning of Faith," the author's purpose is to clear away the misapprehensions involved in the commonly accepted theories of faith, to indicate the relationship of faith to other aspects of life, to face frankly the serious question of suffering as an obstacle of faith, and to expound the vital significance of faith in Jesus Christ.

"The spirit of true religion involves a combination of imagination and conscience: imagination to inspire emotion; conscience to harness the emotion and to guide in the path of duty. Because few writers are able to supply bot elements interesting and useful religious literature is rare. The emotion without the conscience furnishes aesthetic enjoyment in worship, but does not inspire conduct; conscience without emotion points out the path of duty, but furnishes no power to walk in it. It is because Dr. Fosdick's writings furnish both light and warmth, guidance and power." -The Outlook

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick has been of inestimable help to countless people in their religious thought and Christian living. Few ministers have acquired more justifiable prominence in various lines of Christian service. His books have furnished both guidance and power to sincere thinkers who are looking for the worthwhile things in life.