Word: machenism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defendant was Philadelphia's Rev. Dr. John Gresham Machen, who for months had been volubly telling how Presbyterian Modernists were persecuting him and other Presbyterian "Bible-believers" (TIME, Dec. 31). The indictment, brought against him by the New Brunswick Presbytery which still claims his allegiance, was a six-point elaboration of the fact that he had defied his Church's orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen...
First session resulted in Dr. Machen, through counsel, challenging all seven members of the commission trying him. He accused them either of prejudging his case or of being his enemies or, if laymen, of being influenced against him by their pastors...
...Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry Van Dyke to relinquish his pew in Princeton's First Presbyterian Church because, said he, Dr. Machen preached "a dismal, bilious travesty of the Gospel...
From Princeton Dr. Machen and his colleagues migrated to Philadelphia, made that city, by their presence, the capital of U. S. orthodoxy. Near Philadelphia they established their seminary. In Philadelphia they set up a house organ, Christianity Today, in whose columns they proceeded to flay their opponents, often impolitely. In Philadelphia last year they formed the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, which their Church soon outlawed (TIME, April 23 et seq.). And in Philadelphia this year they brought heresy charges against eleven local ministers who had signed the liberal Presbyterian "Auburn Affirmation." The charges were dismissed...
Last week the Presbytery of New Brunswick, N. J. started ouster proceedings against peppery Dr. John Gresham Machen, bellwether and chief name-caller of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Having declined to resign from the Board in accordance with the resolution his church passed against it (TIME, June 4, et seq.), Dr. Machen will presumably be brought to trial by the Presbytery, which last week appointed a committee to study the case. In the same situation was Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr. of the Chicago Presbytery. He was asked to resign or undergo a trial which "would involve...