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"The New Evangelicalism has changed its strategy from one of separation to one of infiltration. Instead of static fron battles the new theological war is one of movement. Instead of attack upon error, the New Evangelicals proclaim the great historic doctrines of Christianity." Harold J. Ockenga, news release, 12-8-57
William E.
Ashbrook, Evangelicalism, The New Neutralism, Columbus: Calvary Bible Church,
1963, p. 7.
"The New Evangelicalism is the latest dress of orthodoxy as
Neo-Orthodoxy is the latest expression of theological liberalism. The New
Evangelicalism differs from Fundamentalism in its willingness to handle the
social problems which Fundamentalism evaded. There need be no dichotomy
betweeen the personal gospel and the social gospel. The true Christian faith is
a supernatural personal experience of salvation and a social philosophy.
Doctrine and ethics are Christian disciplines. Fundamentalism abdicated
leadership and responsibility in the societal realm and thus became impotent to
change society or to solve social problems."
Dr. Harold John
Ockenga, pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, first president of Fuller
Seminary, 12-8-57 news release. William E. Ashbrook, Evangelicalism, The New
Neutralism, Columbus: Calvary Bible Church, 1963, p. 7.
"The evangelical believes that Christianity is intellectually
defensible but the Christian cannot be obscurantist in scientific questions
pertaining to the creation, the age of man, the universality of the flood and
other moot Biblical questions." Harold J. Ockenga, 12-8-57 news release
William E. Ashbrook, Evangelicalism, The New Neutralism, Columbus: Calvary
Bible Church, 1963, p. 8.
[150th anniversary of Park St. Church, speakers included the dean
of the Episcopal Cathedral Church, the president of the American Unitarian
Association, Dana McLean Greely; and Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian
Science monitor.] 2-28-59 New Bedford,
Mass, Standard-Times William E. Ashbrook, Evangelicalism, The New Neutralism,
Columbus: Calvary Bible Church, 1963, p. 9.