A timeline of the life of J. Gresham Machen

Timeline Machen's Life.md

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    title Timeline Machen's Life
    section 19th century
        July 28, 1881 : John Gresham Machen is born to Arthur Webster Machen and Mary Jones "Minnie" Machen in Baltimore, Maryland. Their family attends Franklin Street Presbyterian Church throughout John Gresham's childhood.
        1898 : Machen studies the classics at Johns Hopkins University, gaining a scholarship and much praise from the faculty. He becomes a member of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.
    section 20th century
        1902 : Machen begins studying theology at Princeton Seminary, while simultaneously completing a Master of Arts in Philosophy, also at Princeton. Machen supplements his theological studies at
        1905-06 : the University of Marburg, under the teaching of one of the three leading Liberal scholars, Professor Wilhelm Herrmann (1846-1922) Machen admires Herrmann's piety and seeks to understand Liberalism's framework, but finds it to be incoherent with Scripture and subsequently becomes all the more confident in historic Reformed Orthodoxy.
        1906-14: Machen joins the Princeton faculty as an Instructor of New Testament. He is mentored by such esteemed and beloved faculty as Francis Landey Patton (1843-1932) and Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851-1921))
        November, 1913 : Machen comes under the care of his presbytery for the purpose of ordained gospel ministry
        April, 1914 : Machen is licensed in the Presbyterian Church in the USA (e, the Northern Presbyterian Church).
        June 23, 1914 : Machen is ordained in the PCUSA and installed in the New Brunswick Presbytery.
        1915-29 : Following his ordination in the PCUSA, Machen is promoted to serve Princeton Seminary as an Assistant Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis. His inaugural address, entitled "History and Faith," articulates his firm insistence upon the students' embrace of historic Christianity.
        1918-19 : Though he is staunchly opposed to the United States' intervention in the Great War, Machen elects to volunteer near the front line in France with the YMCA.
        1921: Machen publishes his most academic apologetic work, The Origin of Paul's Religion.
        1923 : Machen publishes a formal response to Harry Emerson Fosdick's famous sermon, "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" (1922), entitled Christianity and Liberalism.
        : Machen preaches a sermon entitled "The Gospel and Modern Substitutes" to those gathered at the 54th State Convention of the YMCA in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
        1923-1924 : Machen serves as Stated Supply for First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, New Jerses delivering a series of sermons now collected in his posthumous anthology God Transcendent compiled and published by his friend and colleague Ned B. Stonehouse
        1924 : Machen opposes the proposition of the Child Labor Amendment of 1924.
        1925 : Machen publishes What Is Faith?, a collection of lectures first delivered at Grove City Bible School (now Grove City College) in Grove City, Ohio.
        April 23, 1928 : Machen delivers a response to Karl Barth's "Theology of Crisis," before his fellow presbyters in Philadelphia.
        1928 : The Board of Directors at Princeton Seminary offers Machen an appointment as the Professor of Apologetics and Christian Ethics, which he turns down, in order to remain a Professor of New Testament.
        March, 1929 : Machen preaches his final message at Princeton Seminary.
        1929 : Machen founds Westminster Theological Seminary as a continuation of the Old Princeton Tradition and in response to the PCUSA's "reorganization" of Princeton's faculty, which subsisted of promoting adherents of Theological Liberalism and demoting adherents of historic Reformed Orthodoxy
        : Machen is deposed from his post at Princeton Seminary by his colleagues in the Presbyterian Church
        1930 : Machen's The Virgin Birth of Christ is published.
        1933 : Machen forms the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions out of concern for the PCUSA's ordination and commission of missionaries who deny elementary doctrines such as the nature of sin and the person and atoning work of Jesus.
        1936 : Machen is defrocked of his ordination in the PCUSA.
        : The Christian Faith in the Modern World is published as a collection of transcripts derived from Machen's sermonic radio addresses.
        June 11, 1936 : Machen founds the Presbyterian Church of America (renamed the Orthodox Presbyterian Church)
        November 12, 1936 : Machen gives his final sermon, "Constraining Love," on the floor of the OPC's Second General Assembly
        January 1, 1937 : John Gresham Machen dies of pneumonia in Bismarck, North Dakota, at the age of 55.
        1937 : The Christian View of Man, another collection of Machen's radio addresses, is published posthumously.

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