History
Fuller Theological Seminary was founded in 1947 by Charles E. Fuller, a radio evangelist known for his "Old Fashioned Revival Hour" show, and Harold Ockenga, the pastor of Park Street Church in Boston. With its founding, the seminary's founders sought to reform fundamentalism from its separatist and sometimes anti-intellectual stance of the 1920-40 era. Fuller envisaged that the seminary would become "a Caltech of the evangelical world."
Most of the earliest faculty held to theologically and socially conservative views, though professors with differing perspectives arrived in the 1960s and 1970s. There were tensions in the late 1950s and early 1960s as some faculty members became uncomfortable with staff and students who did not agree with Biblical inerrancy. This led to the people associated with the seminary playing a role in the rise of new-evangelicalism. More recently, the seminary's “philosophy is gaining pivotal play both in Christian and secular arenas.”
Richard Mouw has served as president of Fuller since 1993. In 2006 a Los Angeles Times article labeled him as "one of the nation's leading evangelicals".
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