Word: fosdick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George A. Buttrick will retire in June as Preacher to the University and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. He will devote his time to freelance preaching and writing, and has also been designated as the first American to serve as Harry Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York...
Buttrick, now 67, will serve as Fosdick Professor during the Fall of 1960-61, and will lecture at universities and seminaries in the spring. He is general editor of a four-volume Bible dictionary and of the 12-volume Interpreters' Bible...
Wisdom (NBC, 4-4:30 p.m.). Guest: Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor emeritus of Manhattan's Riverside Church...
...pink stucco home just north of Manhattan, famed Protestant Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, longtime (1930-46) pastor of Manhattan's Rockefeller-endowed interdenominational Riverside Church, turned 80 and offered a wise, gentle explanation of why many sermons are boring. "The business of an essay is elucidation," said he. "The business of a sermon is transformation. Some sermons are deadly dull because they are little essays on pious subjects...
...Brashares of Chicago, Eugene M. Frank of St. Louis and John Wesley Lord of Boston; the Right Rev. W. Appleton Lawrence, retired Episcopal Bishop of Western Massachusetts; Presbyterian President John A. Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary; Congregational Dean John C. Bennett of Union Theological Seminary; Baptists Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (retired) and Dr. Robert J. McCracken of Manhattan's interdenominational Riverside Church; Methodist Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of Manhattan's Christ Church; and Baptist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of Montgomery, Ala. ¶The Woman's Division of Christian Service of the Methodist Board of Missions threw...