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'''Harry Emerson Fosdick''' (1868-1969), Protestant minister, was perhaps the single most influential leader in 20th century American [[Liberal Christianity]]. Based in New York City, he pentecostal evangelist, rose to national prominence through his undoctrinaire evangelicalism and ability to use the mass media, especially books and magazine articles that appealed to a wide readership. He was a friend and collaborator with John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and advised on Rockefeller Foundation projects.
'''Harry Emerson Fosdick''' (1868-1969), Protestant minister, was perhaps the single most influential leader in 20th century American [[Liberal Christianity]]. Based in New York City, he rose to national prominence through his undoctrinaire evangelicalism and ability to use radio and the press, especially books and magazine articles that appealed to a wide readership. He was a friend and collaborator with John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and advised on Rockefeller Foundation projects.
Fosdick supported many liberal political and social causes. Fosdick stressed both personal growth and social change. As a pragmatist, he strove to make religion compatible with secular
society.
Originally a Baptist, he joined the Presbyterians when he was called by the newly formed First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Originally a Baptist, he joined the Presbyterians when he was called by the newly formed First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Fosdick in 1913, he published the book ''The Assurance of Immortality'' and he would later state that his ideas provided a way for Christians to prevent themselves from commiting "intellectual suicide."
Fosdick in 1913 published the book ''The Assurance of Immortality'' and he would later state that his ideas provided a way for Christians to prevent themselves from commiting "intellectual suicide."
==Battling the Fundamentalists==
Different views of the role of Christianity in the face of the secularization of American culture fueled the conflict between the liberal modernist and conservative fundamentalist factions inside the Presbyterian Church during the 1920s and 1930s. Modernists, led by Fosdick, Henry Sloane Coffin, and Robert E. Speer, promoted inclusiveness and denied the inerrancy of scripture, while fundamentalists such as [[J. Gresham Machen]], Clarence Macartney, and [[William Jennings Bryan]] defended traditional doctrine. The fundamentalist cause, popularly identified with antievolutionism, was damaged in the view of most Presbyterians by the [[Scopes Trial]] in 1925. In 1929, fundamentalist leaders Machen and Macartney left their positions at the Princeton Theological Seminary to found the Westminster Theological Seminary to defend the traditional orthodoxy.<ref> Bradley J. Longfield, "For Church and Country: The Fundamentalist-Modernist Conflict in the Presbyterian Church." ''Journal of Presbyterian History'' 2000 78(1): 34-50. 0022-3883 </ref>
Fosdick's 1922 sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” attacked the [[Fundamentalists]], especially [[John Gresham Machen]] among others that called for Christianity to become a battleground dividing it up into winners and losers.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Miller, Robert Moats. ''Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet'' (1985), the standard scholarly biography
* Miller, Robert Moats. ''Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet'' (1985), the standard scholarly biography [http://books.google.com/books?id=Do5wWiDsoboC&pg=PP1&dq=%22Harry+Emerson+Fosdick%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=1&as_miny_is=2009&as_maxm_is=12&as_maxy_is=2009&num=30&as_brr=0&as_pt=ALLTYPES excerpts and text search]
* Potter, Richard H. "Popular Religion of the 1930's as Reflected in the Best Sellers of Harry Emerson Fosdick." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 1970 3(4): 712-728.
* Potter, Richard H. "Popular Religion of the 1930's as Reflected in the Best Sellers of Harry Emerson Fosdick." ''Journal of Popular Culture'' 1970 3(4): 712-728.
====References====
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.archive.org/details/hymnslivingchur00fosdgoog ''Hymns of the Living Church'' (1910)]
*[http://www.archive.org/details/hymnslivingchur00fosdgoog ''Hymns of the Living Church'' (1910)]
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