1 October 1926 A.D. Dr. J. Gresham Machen seen through Eyes of Dr. Francis Landey Patton, former President of Princeton Theological Seminary
1 October 1926 A.D. Dr. J. Gresham Machen seen through Eyes of Dr. Francis Landey Patton, former President of Princeton Theological Seminary The story is told at: http://continuing.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/machen-as-seen-by-part-i/ Machen as Seen By…, Part I In Francis Landey Patton , J. Gresham Machen , Princeton Theological Seminary on 27/04/2011 at 22:55 In 1926, J. Gresham Machen received nomination to the chair of apologetics and ethics from the Board of Directors at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In the normal course of things, this nomination would have been routinely approved by the General Assembly as it met later that same year. Machen, however, had previously opposed in 1920 the Philadelphia Plan for merging nineteen Presbyterian denominations into a single federated body. He had published two books, The Origin of Paul’s Religion (1920) and Christianity and Liberalism (1923), both of which presented strong arguments against...