Princeton Theological Seminary Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Liberalism and split=== [[File:Princeton_Seminary_class_of_1922_(9314078919).jpg|thumb|Princeton Seminary class of 1922|left]] In response to the increasing influence of [[Liberal Christianity|theological liberalism]] in the 1920s and the [[Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy|fundamentalist–modernist controversy]] at the institution, several theologians left to form the [[Westminster Theological Seminary]] under the leadership of [[J. Gresham Machen]]. The college was later the center of the [[Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy|fundamentalist–modernist controversy]] of the 1920s and 1930s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steward |first1=Gary |title=Princeton Seminary (1812–1929): Its Leaders' Lives and Works |date=2014 |publisher=Presbyterian & Reformed |isbn=9781596383975 |location=Phillipsburg NJ}}</ref> In 1929, the seminary was reorganized along modernist lines, and in response, Machen, along with three of his colleagues: [[Oswald T. Allis]], [[Robert Dick Wilson]] and [[Cornelius Van Til]], resigned, with Machen, Allis and Wilson founding [[Westminster Theological Seminary]] in [[Glenside, Pennsylvania]]. In 1958, Princeton became a seminary of the [[United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.|United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A]]., following a merger between the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and the [[United Presbyterian Church of North America]], and in 1983, it would become a seminary of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) after the merger between the UPCUSA and the [[Presbyterian Church in the U.S.]] Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page