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Harry Emerson Fosdick
287 books19 followersHarry Emerson Fosdick was an American clergyman. He was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Colgate University in 1900, and Union Theological Seminary in 1904. While attending Colgate University he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. He was ordained a Baptist minister in 1903. Fosdick was the most prominent liberal Baptist minister of the early 20th Century. Although a Baptist, he was Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church on West Twelfth Street and then at the historic, interdenominational Riverside Church (the congregation moved from the then-named Park Avenue Baptist Church, now the Central Presbyterian Church) in New York City.
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June 27, 2019
I was both encouraged and horrified by what Harry Emerson Fosdick says in this book.
I was encouraged since so much of what he says rings true--I even wonder if I had read this book or another book by him sooner if I would have had the ability to overcome fundamentalism earlier. I doubt it. Perhaps it is good to be reading his words with the openness of mind that I am now free to have and to use as I navigate and evaluate truth based on its correspondence with reality instead of dogma.
In any case, I was also horrified while reading because very little has changed. Fundamentalism is still very much alive and well within Evangelical Christianity. Still, I have hope that the future will be bright and, as Fosdick suggests, that there is still a coming reformation in which Christians will shake off any unmerited certainty and seek to live by the ideal of Christ by practicing Jesus' religion instead of a religion about Jesus.
I was encouraged since so much of what he says rings true--I even wonder if I had read this book or another book by him sooner if I would have had the ability to overcome fundamentalism earlier. I doubt it. Perhaps it is good to be reading his words with the openness of mind that I am now free to have and to use as I navigate and evaluate truth based on its correspondence with reality instead of dogma.
In any case, I was also horrified while reading because very little has changed. Fundamentalism is still very much alive and well within Evangelical Christianity. Still, I have hope that the future will be bright and, as Fosdick suggests, that there is still a coming reformation in which Christians will shake off any unmerited certainty and seek to live by the ideal of Christ by practicing Jesus' religion instead of a religion about Jesus.
December 31, 2017
I wish I could read more of this book at a time, but it's a bit musty so I have to load up on the allergy meds to do so. Each essay I've read so far is extremely interesting and each lends a different point of view on the subject of religion. It isn't biased blahdy blah, but seemingly intelligent inner discussion.
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