1st Edition

Labor-religion Prophet The Times And Life Of Harry F. Ward

By Eugene P Link Copyright 1984
378 Pages
by Routledge

378 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

This book, the biography of Harry F. Ward, stresses a social historical approach and draws extensively from the Ward family archives to paint a rich portrait of the most prominent and controversial proponent of the social applications of Christianity in the early twentieth century.

1. Preparatory Years 2. The Little Minister in Vibrant Chicago 3. A Magna Charta for Church-Labor Relations 4. Whirlwinds in Boston 5. Family Rituals and Loyalties 6. Building the American Civil Liberties Union 7. The Internationalist Experience 8. Soviet Communism: A New Civilization? 9. Revolutionary Trends in Religion: The Federation 10. The American Revolutionary Tradition: New America 11. The League Against War and Fascism 12. Union Seminary Days: Theology or Moral Action? 13. On the Firing Line Every Day 14. The Outrageous Assumption: Jesus and Marx 15. What Needs Now To Be Done?

Biography

Eugene P. Link is professor emeritus of history at State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Dr. Link began his association with Harry Ward as a student at Union Theological Seminary in the 1930s; when Dr. Link married, Harry Ward performed the ceremony. In the course of his career, Dr. Link has served as a Fulbright Lecturer in India, as dean of social sciences for SUNY-New Paltz, and as chairman of the sociology department for the University of Denver.