Contemporary Evangelical Thought Collection
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Compiled and Edited by Carl F. H. Henry
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Contemporary Evangelical Thought Collection
Carl F. H. Henry
CARL F. H. HENRY (1913-2003) was the eldest of eight children born to Karl F. and Joanna Heinrich in New York City. His mother was Roman Catholic by family tradition, and his father was Lutheran. His early public education led to his first work as a journalist and reporter. A devout Christian lady introduced Him to the Oxford Group in 1923 he was confronted with the claims of the gospel and became a believer. Sensing a call to ministry, Henry enrolled in Wheaton College in 1935, where he entered into the bosom of the evangelical movement. While at Wheaton he married his life companion Helga Bender (1940). They became parents of two children.
While at Wheaton, Carl Henry established friendships with Billy Graham, Harold Lindsell, and Gordon Clark. Clark was a conservative Presbyterian philosopher who stressed the inherent rationality of theology and belief in God. By the time he graduated from Wheaton (1938) Henry had determined to pursue advanced study in theology. By 1942 he had completed his Bachelor of Divinity and Doctor of Theology degrees at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Nine years after his conversion, Henry had three degrees in theology and clear direction under the banner of a rational and evangelical expression of Christian theism. He taught theology at Northern Seminary until 1947, when he was invited to join the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary. Fuller Seminary was the project of evangelist Charles E. Fuller, of Pasadena, CA, and Harold J. Ockenga, pastor of Boston's prestigious Park Street Church. He began his tenure at Fuller Seminary by earning a Ph.D. at Boston University under personalist philosopher Edgar Brightman. Henry taught theology and philosophy, with emphasis on apologetics and ethics, and emerged as a key leader among the Fuller Seminary faculty.
With a background in journalism, impeccable academic credentials, and a proven commitment to evangelical orthodoxy, Carl Henry was poised to become foundinge editor of Christianity Today when it was founded in 1956 in Washington, D.C. Christianity Today was the brainchild of Billy Graham and Harold J. Ockenga. It was to be the banner under which evangelicals could unite to compete in the modern world. Henry served as editor in Christianity Today until 1967, when he was succeeded by Harold Lindsell.
During the ten years Carl Henry served as editor of Christianity Today, he exercised growing leadership in the evangelical movement and helped it earn a worldwide reputation for serious engagement with modern thought.
In the years following his departure from Christianity Today, Henry has continued to teach and write. He has lectured at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, IL, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and World Vision.
Under Carl Henry's tenure as editor of Christianity Today a series of six volumes were published under the title of Contemporary Evangelical Thought (1957-1969). He also wrote Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift toward Neo-Paganism (1988) These were supplemented by his monumental God, Revelation and Authority, in six volumes.
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