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<span class=prefix>Rev</span> J. Gresham Machen

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Rev J. Gresham Machen Famous memorial

Original Name
John Gresham Machen
Birth
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
Death
1 Jan 1937 (aged 55)
Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, USA
Burial
Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA GPS-Latitude: 39.3079486, Longitude: -76.6065445
Plot
Walnut# 2 section, grave 15-16
Memorial ID
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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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  • Added: Apr 25, 1998
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2685/j_gresham-machen: accessed ), memorial page for Rev J. Gresham Machen (28 Jul 1881–1 Jan 1937), Find a Grave Memorial ID 2685, citing Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.