Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harry Emerson Fosdick canonical | 13 |
| Fosdick | 1 |
| Henry Fosdick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1949482 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Emerson Fosdick Context triple: [Fundamentalist–modernist controversy, notableFigure, Harry Emerson Fosdick]
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A.
Carl F. H. Henry
Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
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B.
J. Gresham Machen
J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
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C.
R. A. Torrey
R. A. Torrey was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and author known for his leadership in the Bible conference movement and his influential writings on Christian doctrine and prayer.
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D.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society who reshaped the Bible Student movement into what became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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E.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent 20th-century American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual best known for his work on Christian realism and the authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Emerson Fosdick Target entity description: Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
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A.
Carl F. H. Henry
Carl F. H. Henry was a prominent 20th-century American evangelical theologian and author who helped shape modern evangelical thought and was a founding figure of Christianity Today magazine.
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B.
J. Gresham Machen
J. Gresham Machen was an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar, best known for his defense of historic Christian orthodoxy against theological liberalism and for founding Westminster Theological Seminary.
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C.
R. A. Torrey
R. A. Torrey was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and author known for his leadership in the Bible conference movement and his influential writings on Christian doctrine and prayer.
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D.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Joseph Franklin Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society who reshaped the Bible Student movement into what became known as Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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E.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr was a prominent 20th-century American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual best known for his work on Christian realism and the authorship of the Serenity Prayer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian theologian
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Protestant minister ⓘ human ⓘ liberal Protestant ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Riverside Church, New York City
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linked to:
Riverside Church
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1878-05-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-10-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Colgate Rochester Divinity School
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linked to:
Rochester Theological Seminary
Colgate University ⓘ Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York ⓘ
linked to:
Union Theological Seminary
|
| employer |
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
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linked to:
Union Theological Seminary
|
| familyName |
Fosdick
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linked to:
Harry Emerson Fosdick
|
| fieldOfWork |
Christian ethics
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homiletics ⓘ practical theology ⓘ |
| fullName | Harry Emerson Fosdick ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian devotional literature
ⓘ
sermons ⓘ |
| givenName | Harry ⓘ |
| hasHonorificPrefix | Reverend ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
liberal theology
ⓘ
social gospel movement ⓘ |
| knownFor |
liberal Protestant preaching
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opposition to fundamentalism ⓘ pastorate at Riverside Church in New York City ⓘ widely heard radio sermons ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
liberal Christianity
ⓘ
modernist theology ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Guide to Understanding the Bible
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On Being a Real Person ⓘ Shall the Fundamentalists Win? ⓘ The Meaning of Faith ⓘ The Meaning of Prayer ⓘ The Meaning of Service ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
clergyman ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Buffalo, New York, United States
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linked to:
Buffalo
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| placeOfDeath |
Bronxville, New York, United States
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linked to:
Bronxville, New York
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| positionHeld |
founding pastor of Riverside Church in New York City
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pastor of First Presbyterian Church in New York City ⓘ pastor of Park Avenue Baptist Church in New York City ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestantism
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linked to:
Protestant Christianity
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| religiousTradition |
Baptist
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Presbyterian ⓘ interdenominational Protestantism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Florence Allen Whitney ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Harry Emerson Fosdick Description of subject: Harry Emerson Fosdick was an influential early 20th-century American liberal Protestant minister and theologian known for his progressive views and widely heard radio sermons.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harry Emerson Fosdick
linked to: Harry Emerson Fosdick