Harry Emerson Fosdick
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.
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Background
- Born in
- Buffalo
- Educated at
- Colgate University
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Hymn Society
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"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love …"
"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us."
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1878
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Birth1969
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