broke with the separationist, preeminently defensive program of fundamentalism. These three figures, and many of their peers, whom we will meet in pages to come, were dyed-in-the-wool theological conservatives who lived and moved and had their being among the sprawling fundamentalist and evangelical worlds of the early and mid-twentieth century. In chapters 1 and 2, we meet Harold John Ockenga, the premier institution-builder of the period. The well-heeled Boston pastor promoted a doctrinally orthodox yet culturally aware Christianity through such institutions as the National Association of
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