Presbyterian Theologian. Nationally known spokesperson for stout fundamentalism in his Presbyterian denomination, from which he was finally ousted. In 1936 he formed a new denomination called The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, which remains a small and very conservative group. He is noted as a defender of orthodox Protestantism in the Fundamentalist/Modernist debate of the 1920s. For many years he was a professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He left that institution in 1929 to found Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. J. Gresham Machen was the author of a number of books on the Bible, theology and the Church. (J. Vaudry)
Presbyterian Theologian. Nationally known spokesperson for stout fundamentalism in his Presbyterian denomination, from which he was finally ousted. In 1936 he formed a new denomination called The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, which remains a small and very conservative group. He is noted as a defender of orthodox Protestantism in the Fundamentalist/Modernist debate of the 1920s. For many years he was a professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary. He left that institution in 1929 to found Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia. J. Gresham Machen was the author of a number of books on the Bible, theology and the Church. (J. Vaudry)
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