Welcome back to five minutes in church history. We are still on the road making our way

through California and looking at some pivotal moments in American Christianity that

happened here. We've been in Los Angeles and we remain in the greater Los Angeles area.

We are in Pasadena.

It's a beautiful sunny day and I'm on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary.

This seminary played a key role in the post-World War II evangelical resurgence in American

Christianity.

It was founded by Charles E Fuller, a host of a weekly radio program, and by Harold Aukingay, who was pastor at Park Street

Church on the East Coast in Boston. Aukingay was a student of Maichons at Westminster. In fact, Machin

preached his ordination sermon, and Maichin preached his installation sermon when Aikengue was ordained as a minister in the Philadelphia area,

then he was installed in a church in Pittsburgh, and then he made his move to Park Street.

Well, in 1947, these two joined forces and founded Fuller Seminary.

This is right at the beginning of an evangelical resurgence

coming out of the war.

It was founded to counteract a separatism and an anti-intellectualism of certain strands of

of fundamentalism.

Well, let's take a look at some of its founders, some of its early faculty, and some of the

emphasis of this institution. A bit then on Charles Fuller, he was born in

1887 in LA, and he died in 1967 here in Pasadena.

He had a weekly radio program,

the old-fashioned revival hour.

He was converted in 1916, he was mentored by R.A. Tori, president of what is now Biola College and Talbot Theological

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