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Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on May 24, 1878 in Buffalo, New York, the son of a high school teacher.
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The autobiography of one of America's greatest preachers. Fosdick was the most prominent liberal Baptist minister of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street and then at the historic, interdenominational Riverside Church (the congregation moved from the then-named Park Avenue Baptist Church, now the Central Presbyterian Church) in New York City.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was one of the most influential preachers in the twentieth century. He believed every sermon ought ask and answer some question that genuinely troubles individuals or the societies of which they are a part. Answers to Real Problems gathers several significant sermons from Fosdick's long ministry. The selection is rooted in current needs. This collection presents him asking and answering questions that still weigh--or ought to weigh--on the minds of people today. Here is one of America's finest preachers talking about war, nationalism, the relationship between liberals and conservatives, the plight of the church, public ethics, private morality, and more.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on May 24, 1878 in Buffalo, New York, the son of a high school teacher.
Fosdick attended Colgate University, graduating from it in 1900 with BA degree. Then he entered Union Theological Seminary in New York City to prepare for the ministry. He obtained his BD degree in 1903. In 1908 he earned his MA degree at Columbia University.
Fosdick’s first pastorate was in a Baptist church in Montclair, N. J. During his 11 years there, Fosdick advocated liberal views, both in the pulpit and in published articles. In 1919 he became associate pastor at the First Presbyterian Church, New York City. Crowds filled the church to hear his sermons, but conservative Protestants denounced him as a “modernist. ” Politician William Jennings Bryan and conservative churchmen attacked him, especially after a sermon in 1922 entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" Efforts to remove Fosdick from the Presbyterian church in New York City were ultimately successful.
The imbroglio led one of Fosdick's most famous parishioners, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , to initiate the proposals that led to the establishment of a large, nonsectarian church where Fosdick would be the principal minister. Here, at Riverside Church, Fosdick's congregation became one of the most famous Protestant groups in the nation. Dedicated in 1931, the church provided for Fosdick's preaching a weekly forum until his retirement in 1946. The church symbolized his belief in interracial unity and a nonsectarian, ecumenical approach to church life.
Fosdick also was a prolific publicist, publishing 40 volumes in all. He preached to a nationwide audience each week on radio, and he influenced a generation of fledgling ministers as professor of homiletics at Union Seminary. Relatively undoctrinaire, he was capable of seeing the flaws in his own religious perspective, as evidenced in a sermon, "The Church Must Go beyond Modernism. " A supporter of America's intervention in World War I, Fosdick had become a thoroughgoing pacifist by the time of World War II.
Fosdick was perhaps the most widely known and respected preacher of his generation. He first attracted national attention for his role in the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s. He also perfected a pastoral and preaching technique that made him a model minister for a generation of churchmen.
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(The autobiography of one of America's greatest preachers....)
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Fosdick's religious views rejected biblical literalism in favor of "modernist" theological attitudes that coincided with the emerging scientific world view currently sweeping America. He sought to adapt Christianity to the increasingly sophisticated urban milieu, stressing the intellectual respectability possible in Christian teachings and repudiating the theological obscurantism that had served as the basis of much popular, evangelical Protestantism in the 19th century.
