Word: machenism
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...MACHEN (Arthur) The Bowmen...
...MACHEN (Arthur) The Great Return...
...name Princeton signifies dissension. Reason: last spring the famed Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary, rich in lawns, leafage and endowment, long dedicated to old evangelical doctrine, underwent changes in control which guaranteed that its attitude and influence would hereafter be Modernistic. Famed conservative members of its faculty-John Gresham Machen, Robert Dick Wilson, Oswald Thompson Allis-later resigned and were instrumental in founding in Philadelphia the Westminster Seminary, where the abandoned Fundamentalist ideals of Princeton are now cherished (TIME, June...
Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
...school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania. Later these three men agreed to leave Princeton, to teach the following subjects at the new school: Dr. Machen-New Testament; Dr. Wilson- Old Testament criticism; Semitic philology. Committees were formed Westminster Theologies tentatively adopted, pledges of 22,000 made. It was hinted that the seminary would open in the fall. Acting Secretary is Roland K. Armes, 1237 Commercial Trust Building, Philadelphia. Contributions gratefully received...