Friday, May 27, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:41)
‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’: Looking Back 100 Years to Harry Emerson Fosdick’s Famous Sermon Declaring Modernist War on Biblical Christianity100 Years Later, Fosdick’s Question, ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’ Still Echoes by Religion News Service (Jacob Lupfer)Religion: Riverside Church by Time “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”: Defending Liberal Protestantism in the 1920s by Riverside ChurchPart II (14:41 - 17:57)
Are Adam and Eve in Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart III (17:57 - 19:07)
Can I Keep My School’s Worldview Day From Bringing About the Same Controversy as Faced by that Christian School in Louisville? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart IV (19:07 - 24:38)
What is the Christian Position on Burial at Sea? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 27, 2022. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | In the second part of the program today, we will get to questions from listeners, but first I want |
| 0:18.6 | to go back in history a bit. |
| 0:20.3 | I want to take a little bit of time on this Friday to set the stage for a 100th anniversary of a very important |
| 0:26.9 | event in American Protestant history. Indeed, you could say in American religious history, it |
| 0:31.8 | is when a pastor stepped into one of the most |
| 0:35.0 | distinguished pulpits in the entire United States of America and he preached |
| 0:39.8 | a sermon that asked a question. His question, shall the fundamentalist win? |
| 0:44.0 | The preacher was named Harry Emerson Fosnick. |
| 0:46.0 | The date of his sermon was made the 21st, 1922. |
| 0:50.0 | So this week marks the 100th anniversary of that sermon and of that preacher asking that question. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm indebted to Jacob Blupford Religion News Service for reminding me of this anniversary because it has a lot to do with my own theological pilgrimage. |
| 1:05.2 | No, I wasn't there a hundred years ago, but I have known that sermon for virtually all my adult |
| 1:10.9 | life. First of all, who was Harry Emerson Fosdick? |
| 1:14.0 | He was pastor, very influential, twice on the cover of Time magazine. |
| 1:18.0 | He was the pastor ultimately of what became known as the Riverside Church in New York City there in Morningside Heights, |
| 1:25.0 | very close to Columbia University, very close to Union Theological Seminary, it was considered |
| 1:30.0 | in many ways the citadel of American theological liberalism and Harry |
| 1:35.3 | Emerson Fosdick wanted it that way. Back in the 1920s |
| 1:38.7 | Fosdick as a Baptist of sorts have become the pastor of the first Presbyterian church in New York City. |
| 1:45.5 | He was eloquent, he attracted mass crowds, but he also attracted controversy, and even at that point, |
| 1:52.2 | the Presbyterians and the Baptistists, especially in the north, |
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