Word: machenism
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...droning battle between the Presbyterian Church and the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions, the score last week stood 1-to-1. The Church had won the first round by getting peppery Dr. J. Gresham Machen suspended (TIME, April 8 et ante). Round No. 2 involved Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr., member of the Chicago Presbytery, president of Wheaton College, who was haled before a judicial commission for failing to resign from the Independent Board. Last week, upon the commission's recommendation, the Chicago Presbytery dismissed the charge against Dr. Buswell because, according to Presbyterian law the indictment against...
...commissioner to the Assembly was the bellwether of the Fundamentalists, Dr. J. Gresham Machen of Philadelphia, tried, convicted and suspended for disturbing the peace within his church (TIME, April 8 et ante). But he was in Cincinnati, leading the fight from the sidelines and in the newspapers with all the zeal of a man who has given his name to a movement. ("The issue," said onetime Moderator John McDowell, "is Presbyterianism v. Machenism.") Plump-faced, scholarly Dr. Machen last week saw Machenism trounced on the following fronts...
...Trenton, N. J. last week a Presbyterian judicial commission of six unanimously found Rev. Dr. J. Gresham Machen, fiery Fundamentalist, guilty on six counts of having defied the authority of his Church by belonging to the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (TIME, March 11 et ante). The commission sentenced this "divisive doctor" to suspension from the ministry...
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...
Second session, last week, saw one of Defendant Machen's challenges granted but the commission ruled that there was to be no discussion of doctrine-to which Dr. Machen as a Fundamentalist is highly devoted. Testimony revealed that although the defendant claims he belongs to the Philadelphia Presbytery, the New Brunswick Presbytery has never been so notified and regards...