Henry Clay Vedder (February 26, 1853 – October 13, 1935)[1] was an American Baptist church historian, seminary professor, editor and theologian.
Vedder authored numerous articles and twenty-seven books on church history and theology.
[4] In 1894, he became professor of church history at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania, and served in that capacity until 1926.
[6] Vedder shifted from orthodoxy to evangelical liberalism and became the subject of criticism by fundamentalists in the 1920s.
[7] Vedder joined "social gospel" efforts with theologian Walter Rauschenbusch.