Harold John Ockenga was a leading figure of mid-20th-century American Evangelicalism, part of the reform movement known as "Neo-Evangelicalism".
22 Facts About Harold Ockenga
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Harold Ockenga was a prolific author on biblical, theological, and devotional topics.
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Harold Ockenga helped to found the Fuller Theological Seminary and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, as well as the National Association of Evangelicals.
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Harold Ockenga was born on June 6,1905, and raised in Chicago as the only son of Angie and Herman Harold Ockenga.
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Harold Ockenga's father had German ancestry; the name Harold Ockenga is East Frisian.
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Harold Ockenga was baptized at Austin Presbyterian Church, and his mother later brought him to Olivet Methodist Episcopal Church of which he became a member at age eleven.
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Harold Ockenga began his undergraduate education at Taylor University, a then-Methodist institution in Indiana.
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Harold Ockenga graduated from Westminster in 1930, after which he enrolled as a student in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh to research on Marxism.
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Harold Ockenga began his pastoral ministry in New Jersey, at two Methodist churches.
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Harold Ockenga went to be the associate pastor at Park Street Church, Boston, MA in 1936.
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In 1937, at the death of Park Street's longtime pastor, Arcturus Z Conrad, Ockenga was appointed his successor.
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Harold Ockenga's congregation thrived during much of his pastorate as he exercised considerable talents as a preacher, evangelist, leader and organizer.
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Harold Ockenga served as chairman of the board of the magazine until 1981.
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Harold Ockenga believed that Jesus came to deal with the physical well-being in addition to the more serious spiritual well-being of the people he met.
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Towards the end of the Second World War, Harold Ockenga founded War Relief and the War Relief Commission to deal with the situation abroad.
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Harold Ockenga believed that Neo-Evangelicalism would lack credibility if Christians did not meet the physical needs of those who desperately needed assistance and only preached a spiritual Gospel.
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The seminary opened in September 1947, and Harold Ockenga was appointed seminary president.
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However, Harold Ockenga was reluctant to relinquish his pastoral post and so much to the chagrin of his seminary colleagues he served as president in absentia from 1947 until 1954.
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Harold Ockenga resumed his post as president in absentia from 1960 until 1963 following Carnell's resignation.
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When Harold Ockenga retired from Park Street Church in 1969 he was appointed president of Gordon College and Divinity School.
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Harold Ockenga's desire was to recreate on the US East Coast something of the essence of what had been planned for Fuller seminary.
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Harold Ockenga collaborated with people such as J Howard Pew, Billy Graham and Walter Martin in establishing Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.