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4 unusual facts about Harry Emerson Fosdick


Clarence E. Macartney

In 1919, Macartney engaged in his first printed exchange with Harry Emerson Fosdick.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Fosdick became a central figure in the "Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy" within American Protestantism in the 1920's and 1930's and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th Century.

Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.

In 1951, Roosevelt, together with Dorothy Thompson and a group of 24 American educators, theologians, and writers including Harry Emerson Fosdick and Virginia Gildersleeve founded the American Friends of the Middle East.

Orthodox Presbyterian Church

In 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick, a prominent modernist Baptist serving as a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in New York City, delivered a sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win"?



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