Labor-religion Prophet

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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.

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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?