Awakening the Evangelical Mind Quotes

“Grudem reflected on this calling in an interview: “I attended Park Street Church and sat under Ockenga’s teaching from the late fall of 1967 (my freshman year) until my graduation from Harvard in June, 1970. I had gone to Harvard with the goal of attending law school after college and then entering politics.” It was Ockenga’s preaching that changed the course of his life, however.”
― Owen Strachan, Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement

“But Ockenga did not shy away from identifying himself—and his pulpit—with Calvinism, which many years prior had shaped the New England mind. “Whatever we may think of Calvinism,” he intoned, “it has produced more rugged, upright, courageous characters than any other system.”
― Owen Strachan, Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement

“He concluded the point with an explosive distinction: “The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism,’” not secularist thought, for “Christianity is founded upon the Bible,” while liberalism “is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.”
― Owen Strachan, Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement

“Arriving in the town of Princeton in the full flowering of fall, he could not help but gush: “Everything is gothic,” he wrote to Ray. “It makes one feel as though he lived back in the fourteenth century. Even the lights are so arranged. I expected much but it has passed all my expectations. It is cultured to the enth degree. Nothing I have ever seen can compare with it. No wonder it is rated as it is.”
― Owen Strachan, Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement