The History of the Riverside Church in the City of New York / / Peter J. Paris, John W. Cook, James Hudnut-Beumler, Lawrence Mamiya.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Paris, Peter J.,; Cook, John W.,; Hudnut-Beumler, James,
• MitwirkendeR: Cook, John Wesley,; Hudnut-Beumler, James,; Mamiya, Lawrence H.,; Marty, Martin E.,; Paris, Peter J.,; Tisdale, Leonora Tubbs,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

It was from the pulpit of the Riverside Church that Martin Luther King, Jr., first publicly voiced his opposition to the Vietnam War, that Nelson Mandela addressed U.S. church leaders after his release from prison, and that speakers as diverse as Cesar Chavez, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Cast...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• A Time Line
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Riverside Church and the Development of Twentieth-Century American Protestantism
• 2 Preachers for All Seasons
• 3 A Christian Vision of Unity
• 4 Universal in Spirit, Local in Character
• 5 The Public Witness of the Riverside Church
• 6 Congregations within a Congregation
• About the Contributors
• Index