29 March 1935 A.D. Prof. J. Gresham Machen, the Academic Mensch, Adjudged Guilty at Trial.
29 March 1935 A.D. Prof. J. Gresham Machen, the Academic Mensch, adjudged guilty at trial. The PCA Historians tell the story at: http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2014/03/march-29-2/ The Strange Church Trial of a Spiritual Giant. It all happened around seventy-seven years ago. Back in March of 1935, Dr. J. Gresham Machen was before a church court of his peers seeking to defend himself against the serious charges of denying his ordination vows, disapproval of the government and discipline of the church, advocating a rebellious defiance against the lawful authority of the church, and we could go on and on in the charges leveled against this spiritual giant. You would think that he was guilty of the most aggravated doctrinal error or moral shortcomings. But in reality, it came down to a single issue—that of refusing to obey the 1934 mandate of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to cease and desis...