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The Orthodox Presbyterian Church was founded in 1936, largely through the work of John Gresham Machen.Machen, who, prior to this time was a PCUSA minister, had a longstanding distrust of liberalism in Christianity, as typified by the Auburn Affirmation.
Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America - around 7,800 members - Orthodox, Exclusive Psalmody, A cappella, Covenanter, Presbyterian, Calvinist partially: United Church of Canada - around 388,000 members (as of 12/31/2018) - Liberal, Presbyterian & Congregational & Methodist [ 14 ]
At the First General Assembly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1936, the Presbyterian Church of America (now the Orthodox Presbyterian Church) was established by conservative minister John Gresham Machen.
The UPCUSA, under the leadership of Eugene Carson Blake, the denomination's stated clerk, joined the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the Episcopalians, the United Methodists and the United Church of Christ in meetings of the "Consultation on Church Union" and adopted the Confession of 1967, which had a more neo-orthodox understanding ...
John Gresham Machen, organizer of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. In 1929, Princeton Theological Seminary was reorganized to make the school's leadership and faculty more representative of the wider church rather than just Old School Presbyterianism. Two of the seminary's new board members were signatories to the Auburn Affirmation.
John Gresham Machen (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ s əm ˈ m eɪ tʃ ən /; [b] 1881–1937) was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar and educator in the early 20th century. He was the Professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary between 1906 and 1929, and led a revolt against modernist theology at Princeton and formed Westminster Theological Seminary as a more orthodox alternative.
Orthodox Presbyterian Church ministers (34 P) Pages in category "Orthodox Presbyterian Church" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Presbyterian Church in America and Orthodox Presbyterian Church attempted, in 1956 and in 1972, denominational merger. However, in each of the attempts, the merger was not approved by the necessary quorum in the respective assemblies of one of the denominations. [6] [16]