Well, we've reached the end of our anniversary week. This is our fifth episode, our fifth favorite moment in church history.

And for this moment, we will be looking at the year 1993.

1993 was a very crucial year, especially in the American church, but I think for the church at large.

What we are seeing here in this year is sort of the apex of the controversy between the

fundamentalists and the liberals. This is coming to a of the

liberals,

this is coming to ahead, especially in America,

but it's also happening in other places.

And one of the leaders of the theological conservatives,

at one point he said, well, if the choices between being a fundamentalist and a liberal, of course you can

call me a fundamentalist, but I think the term he actually preferred to be called was a Presbyterian

and a theological conservative, and that of course is

J Gressum Machen. Machen was a scholar at Princeton. He was a teacher there in

the theological seminary of Princeton,

is a professor of New Testament.

And a few years after 1923, he'll be up for a promotion

as a professor of apologetics.

That will get rejected by the General Assembly and that will lead to Machen Leaving

Princeton Seminary, going across the Delaware River and founding Westminster Theological

Seminary.

But that's not quite yet back in 1923. In 1921, Machen delivered an

address to the presbytery in Chester County. This is in Pennsylvania and

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