Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Emerson Fosdickwas an American 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 May 1878
CountryUnited States of America
Harry Emerson Fosdick quotes about
He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.