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History of Christianity is a six part survey designed to stimulate your curiosity by providing glimpses of pivotal events and persons in the spread of the church.
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Harold J. Ockenga, Evangelical Leader
On this day, June 6, 1905, Harold J. Ockenga was born into a world where liberal scholarship was eroding traditional Christian beliefs. He was just five when Torrey and Dixon, evangelical educators, issued The Fundamentals.
The ten booklets set forth positions which Christians must not abandon: the verbal inerrancy of the Bible; the virgin birth and Godhood of Christ; Christ as our substitute in the atonement; His physical resurrection; and His eventual return to earth in a body. Ockenga became a fundamentalist.
In 1942, to counter the American Council of Churches, Ockenga co-founded the National Evangelical Association. A few years later, he co-founded Fuller Theological Seminary, touted as a conservative alternative to seminaries which had backed away from key Christian doctrines and the inspiration and accuracy of Scripture.
When Ockenga recognized that Fundamentalism was isolating itself from effective social action, he became a neo-evangelical. As he saw it, evangelicals needed to be involved even with the enemies of the church, to engage social issues and engage in theological dialog.
Because of his active involvement in higher education and his board relationship with the Christianity Today, Ockenga helped give intellectual credibility to the modern evangelical movement in America.
In 1963, Ockenga relinquished the presidency of Fuller Theological Seminary. Six years later, he helped found Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He died in 1985.
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