Harry emerson fosdick biography of barack
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Harry emerson fosdick biography of barack
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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 1920's and 1930's and was one of the most prominentliberal ministers of the early 20th Century.
Although a Baptist, he was guest preacher in New York City at First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street, Manhattan and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church, founded by philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.[4][5][6]
While at First Presbyterian Church, on May 21, 1922, he delivered his famous sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”, in which he defended the modernist position.
In that sermon, he presented the Bible as a record of the unfolding of God’s will, not as the literal "Word of God". He saw the history of Christianity as one of development, progress, and gradual change. To the