On December 8, 1957, Ockenga gave a news release stating that “the New Evangelicalism is the latest dress of orthodoxy as Neo-Orthodoxy is the latest expression of theological liberalism.” He stressed the differences between the new evangelicalism and fundamentalism. New evangelicalism had “a willingness to handle the social problems which Fundamentalism evaded,” a change of strategy “from one of separation to one of infiltration,” a willingness to “face the intellectual problems
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