15 October 1960 A.D. Death: Dr. Charles Erdman—Professor at Princeton Seminary
15 October 1960 A.D. Death: Dr. Charles Erdman—Professor at Princeton Seminary We believe he died in 1960, not 1984 as the article below notes. Archivist. “October 15: Death of Charles Erdman.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 15 Oct 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/10/october-15-3/ . Accessed 15 Oct 2015. October 15: Death of Charles Erdman It was at the momentous Syracuse, N.Y. meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. where Dr. J. Gresham Machen was officially defrocked from the ministry of that denomination. That action in turn then prompted the founding of what was to become the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Also in attendance at that General Assembly in Syracuse was one of Machen’s many adversaries, Dr. Charles R. Erdman, a man who was by all accounts staunchly evangelical. Yet he found himself in opposition to the course taken by Dr. Machen— he found himself siding with those ...