Word: unsectarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most concrete expression of Mr. Rockefeller's unsectarian liberalism is Manhattan's large, Gothic Riverside Church, a place of worship for "all the disciples of Jesus," which he built for $4,000,000 and in which he installed Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick. No less monumental was the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, to which Mr. Rockefeller was the largest contributor (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932 et seq.). That this survey, which found great need of interdenominational cooperation in foreign missions, was received "unenthusiastically" by the Northern Baptist Convention, its onetime President Charles Oscar Johnson was quick...