- Collection:
- Isaac R. Clark Memorial Collection
- Title:
- Sin and Liberal Christianity by Dr. H. E. Fosdick, circa 1960
- Date of Original:
- 1957/1963
- Subject:
- African Americans--Religion
Education--Religion
Theology--Study and teaching
Theological seminaries
Sermons - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside church in New York City, delivers a sermon on sin and liberal Christianity. Also unidentified man delivers sermon on the pool of Bethesda. Finally, an unidentified instructor takes questions from students.
00:00:05 Talks about that fathers sin was a horrid reality and deep seated depravity of human nature that all faced and from which grace of God could save us.00:00:38 Talks about how liberal Christianity on the whole has been complacent about human nature. Modernism grew up when progress was in the air.00:07:20 Talks about how a serious view of human nature is the first step to a realistic outlook on life.00:14:33 Talks about World War II, and how no military victory alone solves any abiding problems in human life. If the churches dont say who, someone else will.00:24:42 Talks about not being discouraged about human nature and how New Testament is encouraging.00:26:36 Talks about how liberal Christianity and some of it alternate forms has often succeeded in reducing religion to a kind of spiritual cosmetic, adding touch of heightened color to a countenance not radically changed.00:30:52 Ends sermon and prays.00:30:59 Unidentified man talks about the bible, and placing before the mind the mysterious other called God.00:39:14 Talks about how behind the concreate evidence of what other people see is the unseen motives. God looks behind the invisible motives.00:43:31 Ends sermon.00:43:41 Unidentified man talks about pool in Bethesda having miraculous power.00:56:23 Ends sermon.00:56:34 Unidentified man ask question about burden of ministry and the church.00:57:05 Unidentified instructor answers questions from students.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.117:0086
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 01:36:48
- Original Collection:
- Isaac R. Clark Memorial Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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