How do I get out of here? So begins John Dillenberger's account of his journey from a small Illinois farm overlooking the Mississippi to Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, Drew, San Francisco Theological Seminary, and ultimately the presidencies of the Graduate Theological Union and Hartford Seminary. Along the way, he served as a colleague of such notable scholars as Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. From Fallow Fields to Hallowed Halls is at once an account of the unfolding of a life and a picture of academic and cultural religious currents of the twentieth century. John Dillenberger was shaped by the times that he also shaped at critical junctures.