Welcome back to Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung, and I want to read an article for you today from Reform Theological Seminaries Journal.

You may not know that they have a journal.

You can go there, journal.rts.org.org.

And they have, in my opinion, a really interesting, fascinating journal that just online journal,

that just came out May 20th when I'm recording this.

And I'm a little bit biased that I think it's interesting because I pitched one of the major

ideas to the editors in this journal.

On May 21st, it will be the 100th anniversary of Harry Emerson Fosdick's sermon.

Famous, infamous, depending on your point of view, shall the fundamentalists win?

And so I propose to the editors of the journal for RTS that they do a symposium of articles looking at Fosdick, the sermon,

Machen, liberalism, what happened before and after, what was the fundamentalist modernist controversy about?

So there's some really good articles, John Meather, Sean Michael Lucas, Daryl Hart, and others, and then there's other

good articles on other topics in the journal. But I did an article entitled Harry Emerson Fosdick

and the Spirit of American Liberalism. Here it is. On May 21, 1922, Harry Emerson Foswick took to the pulpit of Old First, the historic

First Presbyterian Church, established 1716, located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to deliver

what would be his most famous sermon. The American Church, broadly, and the Presbyterian Church specifically,

were already divided into conservative and liberal camps. Foszic's sermon did not create the theological

and ecclesiastical division, but his sermon that spring clearly exposed the division. And,

more than that, it exemplified all the reasons for it.

For as much as Fosdick thought of himself as ironic, moderate, and peace-loving, one does not

entitle a sermon, shall the fundamentalist win, without meaning to pick a fight.

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