Word: fosdick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite a birthday present: $250,000 from John D. Rockefeller III to establish the Harry Emerson Fosdick visiting professorship at Union Theological Seminary. At Union's annual alumni dinner this week, President Henry P. Van Dusen announced the gift and its terms: "To honor Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick for his distinguished contributions as teacher, preacher, writer and counselor, and to strengthen the training of the . . . leaders of the Christian church so as to enable them in their generation, as Dr. Fosdick has in his generation, to interpret the abiding truths and experiences of Christian faith...
Guest of honor 75-year-old Harry Fosdick sat pink-cheeked and snap-eyed through the encomiums. Then he rose to speak for himself with the familiar, measured voice that was the best-known and most influential one in Protestantism during...
Three Hours a Day. Harry Fosdick grew up in Buffalo, the son of a high-school principal who believed that Christianity was more important than sects. He gave young Harry a course in the same conviction by bringing him up a Baptist (by immersion), sending him to a Presbyterian Sunday school, and letting him enroll in a Methodist young people's society. In Colgate University Harry Fosdick encountered Doubt. "I'm building another [universe] and leaving God out," he told his mother. But God got back in through the interstellar space, and in 1901 Fosdick was at Union...
...graduated (summa cum laude), married Florence Whitney, a Worcester, Mass, manufacturer's daughter, and took a pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Montclair, N.J. For the next eleven years, First Baptist grew and flourished under his magnetic pulpit, and Harry Fosdick grew with it. Each morning at 9 he shut himself up in an unmarked office and spent three hours soaking up philosophy and literature in preparation for his Sunday sermons. Christian behavior, not doctrine, was what he preached; he was against materialism and sin, and for the righteous life. But though what...
...Henry Emerson Fosdick, famous preacher at the Riverside church in New York City, is a Colgate alumnus who is still active in the Alumni Association...