the Campbell renaissance of the postwar era, Wrather noted that during the heyday of scientific humanism and with new discoveries in biblical criticism Campbell had gone out of fashion. Yet, she observed, “In the chastened, stricken world of the 1950’s, amid the ruins of its fallen idol of man’s arrogant self-sufficiency, Alexander Campbell speaks out with sometimes startling relevance.” By 1970 the leadership of the Christian Board of Publication had determined that a new, comprehensive history