Talk:Harry Emerson Fosdick/Archive 1

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Is it possible that a Baptist minister would be the minister of the First Presbyterian Church? Surely this isn't accurate. 152.11.226.16 14:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC) I also question stating that Riverside Church was Park Avenue Baptist Church. Please provide explanation or reference. Morningside Heights is a long way from Park Avenue.152.11.226.16 14:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

As for Baptist preaching at Presbyterian church- please refer to Fosdick's autobiography - "The Living of These Days", p132. "They asked me to become the minister of the newly formed church. I declined because I could not make the creedal subscription necessary to be a Presbyterian clergyman, and had no desire either to leave my professorship or to change affiliation from a comparatively free to a very stiff denominational system of ecclesiastical control.  Then they called me to be simply the Guest Preacher.  Dr. Alexander would be made minister, one or more associates would be called to carry the parish work; my responsibility would be preaching alone..." 69.182.34.139 (talk) 16:22, 18 February 2008 (UTC)


 * When I read the question (two paragraphs above) I remembered that he was not pastor but only preacher. I thought I would go find the appropriate place in The Living of These Days, but then I saw that it was there in the first response.  I am a little suprised that, in the two years since this was resolved on the talk page, no one has fixed it in the actual article. Sterrettc (talk) 01:54, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

He was a racist, a crook and an eugenicist
The article is weak and biased.This man was a racist, a crook and an eugenicist.Being linked to a person such as John D. Rockefeller and recieveing many money from Rockefeller, he couldn't be a good man.For an introduction about this bad preacher, the book "Preaching Eugenics" is a good choice.Racial segregation, Eugenic sterilization, anti-miscigenation laws all were supported by this bad american protestant.The fact that support to eugenics was normal among protestant and jewish clergy in 1920 and 1930 doesn't changes the fact of this despicable preacher was a crook and a racist.Agre22 (talk) 13:38, 24 June 2008 (UTC)agre22


 * I have read Fosdick's autobiograph The Living of these Days and his essays in Christianity and Progress and I saw nothing to indicated that he was a racist, a crook, or a eugenicist. Sterrettc (talk) 01:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)


 * I have now read an excerpt from Preaching Eugenics where it mentions Fosdick, and it seems clear to me that Fosdick was arguing against eugenics, not for it. Sterrettc (talk) 01:39, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

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