Harold John Ockenga

Harold John Ockenga (born June 6, 1905 in Chicago , † February 8, 1985 ) was an American evangelical clergyman and co-founder of the Fuller Theological Seminary .

Life

Ockenga grew up in Chicago in a Methodist family. He successfully completed his studies at Taylor University in 1927. He then went to the seminary at Princeton Theological Seminary , but broke off his education there to go to the Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia , where he graduated in 1931. He was then the pastor of two Presbyterian parishes in Pittsburgh , where he continued his studies at the University of Pittsburgh , and finally in 1939 his Ph.D. received his doctorate. Ockenga went to Boston to a thing of the Park Street Congregational Church to work as a pastor. Ockenga gained national fame through a radio program he founded and his publications.

At the founding of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), a response to the creation of Carl McIntires fundamentalist embossed American Council of Christian Churches (its part as a counter organization for liberal National Council of Churches established), he was instrumental in. From 1942 to 1944 he was the first president of the NAE, whose aim was to promote evangelism, overcome divisions within the evangelical movement, and get involved in social and cultural issues.

He was one of the leading figures in the reorientation of US evangelicalism after World War II , which was referred to as Neo-Evangelicals according to a term coined by Ockenga . This group of American Christian leaders included Carl Henry, Harold Lindsell, Wilbur Smith and Edward John Carnell, as well as Charles Edward Fuller , who was known from Christian radio broadcasts . Fuller became the namesake of the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, named after him . Ockenga was one of its founders in 1947 and was its president from 1947 to 1954 and from 1960 to 1963, but always resided in Boston during his tenure. In 1956 he helped found Christianity Today and then chaired the board of directors of the evangelical magazine for about 25 years.

In 1969, Ockenga retired from Park Street Church's ward ministry but assumed the presidency of Gordon College and Divinity School . From the merger of the Gordon Seminary and the Conwell School of Theology , the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary emerged in the following years , of which he remained president until 1979.

Works

Proclaiming the New Testament. Volume III: Containing the Complete Texts of: The Epistle to the Romans & The Epistles to the Thessalonians. 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Randall Herbert Balmer: Ockenga, Harold John (1905–1985) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 504 (English).
^ Stephan Holthaus: Fundamentalism in Germany . The struggle for the Bible in Protestantism in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2nd Edition. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-932829-85-9 , pp. 111 .
^ J. Gordon Melton: Fundamentalism . In: Encyclopedia of World Religions . Encyclopedia of Protestantism, No. 6 . Facts of File, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-8160-5456-5 , pp. 240 ff . (English).
^ Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals: Carl McIntire. Wheaton College, 2008, archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; accessed on June 26, 2012 (English).
↑ Derek J. Tidball: Keyword Evangelical . Ed .: Dieter Sackmann. Edition Anker in the Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7675-7058-0 , p. 129 (English: Who are the Evangelicals? - Tracing the roots of today's movements . Translated by Dieter Sackmann).
↑ Randall Herbert Balmer: Neoevangelicalism . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 486 (English).
^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 276 (English).
^ Randall Herbert Balmer: Gordon College (Wenham, Massachusetts) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 292 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Ockenga, Harold John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ockenga, Harold J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American evangelical pastor, co-founder of Fuller Theological Seminary
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago
DATE OF DEATH	February 8, 1985

[EoE-1] Randall Herbert Balmer: Ockenga, Harold John (1905–1985) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 504 (English).

[2] Stephan Holthaus: Fundamentalism in Germany . The struggle for the Bible in Protestantism in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2nd Edition. Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-932829-85-9 , pp. 111 .

[3] J. Gordon Melton: Fundamentalism . In: Encyclopedia of World Religions . Encyclopedia of Protestantism, No. 6 . Facts of File, New York 2005, ISBN 978-0-8160-5456-5 , pp. 240 ff . (English).

[4] Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals: Carl McIntire. Wheaton College, 2008, archived from the original on June 26, 2012 ; accessed on June 26, 2012 (English).

[DJT-5] Derek J. Tidball: Keyword Evangelical . Ed .: Dieter Sackmann. Edition Anker in the Christian publishing house, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7675-7058-0 , p. 129 (English: Who are the Evangelicals? - Tracing the roots of today's movements . Translated by Dieter Sackmann).

[EoE-2-6] Randall Herbert Balmer: Neoevangelicalism . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 486 (English).

[EoE-3-7] Randall Herbert Balmer: Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, California) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 276 (English).

[EoE-4-8] Randall Herbert Balmer: Gordon College (Wenham, Massachusetts) . In: Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism . Baylor University Press, Waco 2004, ISBN 1-932792-04-X , pp. 292 (English).