ABSTRACT
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) was the best-known, self-proclaimed religious modernist in his heyday in the interwar period. A teacher at the Union Theological Seminary and pastor of the Riverside Church in New York supported by the Rockefellers, he was also a prolific author. Writing here in the aftermath of the Scopes trial, he acknowledged Van Dyke's point that the spiritual and scientific spheres were separate but explained that the continuing war between religion and science as the result of elements on both sides refusing to recognize it. The implication was up-to-date and comforting; benign reconciliation was possible from which only the immoderate would be excluded.
