Harry Emerson Fosdick vs. John Lancaster Spalding
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878 – 1969
Harry Emerson Fosdick was an American Mainline Protestant 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. Although a Baptist, he was called to serve as pastor, in New York City, at First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan's West Village, and then at the historic, inter-denominational Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is …"
John Lancaster Spalding
1840 – 1916
John Lancaster Spalding was an American Catholic author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of Peoria in Illinois from 1877 to 1908. He was also a co-founder of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. and a co-creator of the Baltimore Catechism.
"There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels."
Connections
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