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...Never again will I prostitute my Christian ministry to the idealizing of any war." Harry Emerson Fosdick, Manhattan's famed preacher, made this blunt promise in his own pulpit in 1939. He has kept his promise. He has avoided glorifying war, has continually sounded the thesis that after the war the U.S. must live with all the nations of the world...
Last week Harry Emerson Fosdick, 64, handed in his resignation after twelve years as pastor of the towering Riverside ("Rockefeller") church. The trustees, "considering the spiritual needs of these war days," would not accept it. They got Dr. Fosdick to remain by allowing him to confine his duties to preaching...
...black-eyed Fosdick, who still looks youngish and agreeably testy, it was, in many ways, quite a week. He published his 20th book, On Being a Real Person (Harper; $2.50), and his publishers ran off 50,000 copies - their largest original print order for a religious book. Wrote Dr. Fosdick: "Here I have tried to set down what I have seen going on inside real people, have endeavored to describe their familiar mental and emotional maladies, their alibis and rationalizations, their ingenious, unconscious tricks of evasion and escape, their handling of fear, anxiety, guilt and humiliation, their compensations and sublimations...
Forward-Sliding Baptist. While a sophomore at Colgate, "Fuzzy" Fosdick wrote home to his parents in Buffalo (his father was a high-school principal): "I am throwing over my old idea of the universe. I am building another-and leaving God out." But God did not stay out. When Fuzzy graduated (as class poet, cheer leader, winner of five major prizes), he went to Manhattan's liberal Union Theological Seminary, then to a Baptist pastorate in Montclair...
...retired each morning to an office building to write his sermons, wrote with a vigorous accent that attracted big congregations. During World War I he went overseas with the Y.M.C.A., helped to stir up war sentiment as a lecturer for the British Ministry of Information. After the war, Baptist Fosdick was called to Manhattan's rich, influential First Presbyterian Church...