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Fosdick

American  
[foz-dik] / ˈfɒz dɪk /

noun

  1. Harry Emerson, 1878–1969, U.S. preacher and author.


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Fosdick was born Aug. 26, 1941, in Owtonna, Minnesota.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, a liberal Baptist pastor who served First Presbyterian Church and later Riverside Church in Manhattan, rejected the bodily resurrection of Jesus.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2022

Riverside’s pugnacious founding pastor, Harry Emerson Fosdick, was a key figure in the Protestant split between modernists and fundamentalists in the early 20th century.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2019

The broadside in Cincinnati bears the signature of Richard Fosdick, a New London, Connecticut, native who brought the document with him when he settled in the southwest Ohio city in 1810.

From Washington Times • May 2, 2015

Weaver brought the blind request to Raymond Fosdick, disguised as a grant application “for expediting the construction of the giant cyclotron, and for the purchase of certain associated equipment.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik