HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 07/30/1952 - HFSID 167749
Price: $220.00
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
Harry Emerson Fosdick writes letter of thanks to supporter
Autograph Letter Signed: "Harry Emerson
Fosdick". 1p. 5½x5½ imprinted letterhead, written in purple ink. Mouse
Island Boothbay Harbor, Main, 1952 July 30. To: Dr. Olsen. In Full:
"Dear Dr. Olsen, Thank you cordially for your
goodwill! I warmly appreciate your gracious letter. Sincerely yours,".Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was ordained
a Baptist minister in 1903. Although he was Baptist, he was liberal and became
Pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in New York (1918-1924). In 1922, he
delivered his sermon "Shall the Fundamentalist Win?" and became a
central figure in the conflict between fundamentalists and liberal
Protestants in the 1920s & 1930s. He presented the Bible as a
record of the "unfolding of God's will," not as the literal "Word of
God". In 1923, the Church ordered an investigation of
his views and he resigned in 1924. He was immediately hired by the Park Avenue
Baptist Church -whose most famous member was John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who
funded the construction of the interdenominational Riverside Church where
Fosdick became the Pastor. It should be noted that Fosdick's brother, Raymond, ran the Rockefeller Foundation for
three decades, beginning in 1921, and it funded the nation-wide distribution of
his famous sermon that was re-titled "The New
Knowledge and the Christian Faith". An outspoken
opponent of racism and injustice, he also supported appeasement of
Hitler-arguing "moral equivalence", i.e. that the democracies were to blame for the rise of
fascism. Fosdick reviewed the first edition of Alcoholics Anonymous (1939),
was an active member of the American Friends of the Middle East, and a founder
of the Committee for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land. Adhesive residue
(previous mounting) on verso-show through at all four corners. One fold crease.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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