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Harry Emerson Fosdick (May 24, 1878 – October 5, 1969) was an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the fundamentalist–modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century.
A 1926 photograph of Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969), whose 1922 sermon "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" sparked the fundamentalist–modernist controversy. The splits between fundamentalists and modernists had been bubbling in the Presbyterian Church for some time.
The following January, Harry E. Edmonds—leader of the International House in Morningside Heights for whose construction Rockefeller had provided funds—wrote to Rockefeller to propose creating a new church in the neighborhood. Edmonds suggested progressive pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick should head such a church. Rockefeller then told the Park ...
Harry Emerson Fosdick, American Pastor 5. "Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don’t vote.” ...
The American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) was an American international educational organization, formed in 1951. [1] It was founded by columnist Dorothy Thompson, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., Harry Emerson Fosdick, and 24 other American educators, theologians, and writers.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1900), pastor/author; John Tecumseh Jones, (attended 1829), Native American leader, Ottawa translator, Baptist minister, anti-slavery advocate in Kansas, founder of Ottawa University; Joseph Endom Jones (1876), Baptist minister, professor at Virginia Union University
She was the daughter of Harry Emerson Fosdick, who was the first pastor of the Riverside Church in New York City.She graduated from Smith College in 1934 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1939, subsequently returning to Smith College to teach for four years.
[12] That same year, Harry Emerson Fosdick assumed the role of pastor of First Presbyterian Church. Fosdick proved to be a charismatic preacher and resulted in the growth of the congregation. The increased size of the congregation necessitated the lengthening of the church in 1919, with the addition of a chancel. [2]