Collection
629 [December
7, 2006]
Ockenga,
Harold John; 1905-1985
Ephemera;
1979
Audio tapes (.008 cubic
feet)
Restrictions:
None
Brief
Description. Two audio tapes of a sermon and an interview of Ockenga,
one of the most prominent American Evangelicals of the mid-20th century. In
the interview, Ockenga talks about the founding of the National Association
of Evangelicals and the development of Evangelicalism.
Full name |
Harold John Ockenga |
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Birth |
July 6, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Death |
February 8, 1985, in Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA |
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Family |
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Parents |
Herman and Angie (Tetzlaff) Ockenga |
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Siblings |
Two sisters |
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Marital Status |
Married Audrey I. Williamson |
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Children |
Audrey Starr, Aldruth Sabra, Harold John |
Conversion |
December 31, 1922, at the age of 17 |
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Ordination |
1931, in the Presbyterian Church |
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Education |
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1927 |
Taylor University, B.A. |
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1927-1929 |
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.(elected president of his class) |
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1929-1930 |
Westminister Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. |
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1939 |
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. PhD in Philosophy |
Career |
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1929 |
Was one of a group of conservative students and faculty that left Princeton Theological Seminary over doctrinal disputes and started a new school, Westminister Theological Seminary |
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1930-1931 |
Assistant pastor to Clarence Macartney at the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh |
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1931-1936 |
Pastor of Point Breeze Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh |
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1934-1939 |
Chaplain in the U. S. Naval Reserve with the rank of lieutenant (j.g.) |
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1936-1969 |
Pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He had previously served as temporary pastor there during the summer of 1934 and was the choice of the previous pastor, A. Z. Conrad. He accepted the call from Park Street Church in October 18, 1936. Among other activities, he greatly expanded the church’s mission program until by the time he left it was supporting ninety-two missionaries in forty-eight countries. He became one of the most prominent and influential conservative Protestant ministers in New England and a leader of the Evangelical movement that was developing in the country. |
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1942-1944 |
First president of the National Association of Evangelicals [of the United States]. Also served as chairman of the International Commission of the NAE. From this time on, Ockenga was usually referred to as one of the major leaders of the Evangelical or Neo-Evangelical movement in the United States. |
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1946, 1948, 1951, 1957, 1964 |
Guest minister at Westminister Chapel in London, England |
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1947-1954; 1959-1963 |
First president of Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA |
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1949-1950 |
Played the predominant part in arranging Billy Graham’s evangelistic meetings in Boston in these years and served on the crusade committee. Toured other New England cities with Graham in 1950. |
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1951-1961 |
Vice president of the World Evangelical Fellowship and president of its American board |
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1950s |
Weekly program on Boston television, I Want An Answer |
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1956-1981 |
Chairman of the board of Christianity Today, Inc., and played an important part in the early planning of the magazine |
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1961-1969 |
Chairman of the board of trustees of Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, USA |
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1965 |
Served on the executive committee for the Billy Graham Greater Boston Evangelistic Crusade |
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1966 |
Speaker at the World Congress on Evangelism, held in Berlin, Germany |
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1969-1979 |
President of Gordon College and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton, Massachusetts, USA |
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1971 |
Co-chairman and featured speaker at the Jerusalem Conference on Biblical Prophecy held in Jerusalem |
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1974 |
Speaker at the International Congress on World Evangelization, held in Lausanne, Switzerland |
Other significant information |
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Served on the board of director of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and of the Christian Freedom Foundation |
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Honorary degrees from a number of institutions, including Suffolk University, Bob Jones University, Houghton College, Wheaton College, Norwich University, Seattle Pacific College, Chungang University, Gordon College, International Christian Graduate University |
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Author of more than a dozen books |
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Frequent speaker at conferences, congress and in pulpits in the United States and many other countries |
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Scope
and Content
Arrangement:
Chronological
Date
Range: 1979
Volume:
,008 cubic feet
Geographic
coverage: Nashville, Tennessee
Type
of documents: Audio recordings of a sermon and an interview
Subjects:
American Evangelicalism in the second half of the 20th century, Fuller
Theological Seminary, the National Association of Evangelicals, Billy Graham,
Carl McIntire, Charles Fuller, Harold John Ockenga
Notes:
This collection consists of two tapes made by Dr. Ockenga in Nashville, Tennessee,
in 1979.
Exceptional
items:
T1 is a radio
broadcast of a sermon Ockenga gave at the First Presbyterian Church, entitled
“The Living Christ Speaks,” based on Matthew 28:18-20. He is introduced
briefly by the church’s senior pastor Rev. Cortez Cooper. The sermon is
interrupted shortly before its end (apparently because it was running long)
by a short epilogue by Rev. Cortez, thanking people for listening and inviting
them to listen next week.
T2 is a tape of an
interview of Ockenga by James A. Hedstrom a couple days later. The interview
was apparently for the purpose of gathering data for Hedstrom’s dissertation.
During the interview, Ockenga talks about the founding of the National Association
of Evangelicals and the growth of the Protestant Evangelicalism in the United
States since 1945. He discusses in particular Carl McIntire, Billy Graham, Walter
Maier and Charles Fuller.
Provenance
The materials in this collection were given to the Archives of the Billy Graham Center by James Hedstrom in 1991.
Accession: 91-117
December 7,
2006
Bob Shuster
LOCATION
RECORD
Accession:
91-117
Type
of Material: Audio Tapes
The following items
are located in the AUDIO TAPE file.
Item# - Reel or cassette, length, number of sides, contents (title of session, participants) according to the program, date.
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R/C |
length |
Sides |
Contents |
Dates |
T1 |
C |
30 |
1 |
Radio broadcast of a sermon preached by Ockenga at the First Presbyterian Church of Nashville, Tennessee. This cassette is a copy made by the Archives from the cassette donated to the Archives, which was no longer in a usable condition. |
2/25/1979 |
T2 |
C |
33 |
1 |
Interview of Harold John Ockenga by James Hedstrom. This cassette is a copy made by the Archives from the cassette donated to the Archives, which was no longer in a usable condition. The last few minutes of the tape could not be copied. |
2/27/1979 |