Word: machenism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago at its General Assembly in Syracuse, N. Y. the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. formally suspended Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen and five of his super-orthodox Fundamentalist colleagues because they refused to resign from their Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, June 8, et ante). Last week in Philadelphia, with the confidence of his independent income, determined Dr. Machen set about founding a new and "true" Presbyterian Church...
...Presbyterian commissioners (delegates) made ready to journey last week to Syracuse, N. Y. for the 148th annual General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., in Philadelphia a famed and zealous Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating...
...Lincoln Auditorium in Syracuse last week the middle-of-the-road assembly, whether or not dominated by a Machine, fulfilled Dr. Machen's worst fears in settling the first matters before...
Christ's Court. During the past two years, Fundamentalist Machen and a handful of his followers have defied the Presbyterian Assembly by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, April 23, 1934, et seq.) Tried and in most cases convicted by local presbyteries, they repeatedly appealed until last week they were before the bar of the Church's highest tribunal- the Assembly, sitting as a "Court of Jesus Christ" and voting upon preliminary decisions made by the Permanent Judicial Commission whose head is Minnesota's Supreme Court Justice Clifford L. Hilton. To the appeals...
...From Philadelphia, Vatican City of Presbyterian Fundamentalism, issued a new semimonthly, The Presbyterian Guardian, the last word in undiluted orthodoxy, as expounded by Fundamentalist Dr. J. Gresham Machen. Well and briskly written, the journal's news columns deal mainly with the tribulations of members of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions who have lately been tried & suspended from the Presbyterian Church...