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'''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892 - 1972) was a novelist and Presbyterian missionary who received both a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. Despite being forced to resign from the ''Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions'' by the actions of [[John Gresham Machen]]<ref name=Hart> Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." ''[[Modern Age]]'' 1997 39(3): 234-245.</ref>, she wrote a tribute to Machen in the [[New Republic]]: | '''Pearl S. Buck''' (1892 - 1972) was a novelist and Presbyterian missionary who received both a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. Despite being forced to resign from the ''Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions'' by the actions of [[John Gresham Machen]]<ref name=Hart> Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." ''[[Modern Age]]'' 1997 39(3): 234-245.</ref>, she wrote a tribute to Machen in the [[New Republic]]: | ||
| − | {{cquote| [Machen] was worth a hundred of his fellows who, as princes of the church politics and trim their sails to every wind.<ref name=Hart/>}} | + | {{cquote| [Machen] was worth a hundred of his fellows who, as princes of the church, occupy easy places and play their church politics and trim their sails to every wind.<ref name=Hart/>}} |
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Revision as of 17:18, March 25, 2009
Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1972) was a novelist and Presbyterian missionary who received both a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize. Despite being forced to resign from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions by the actions of John Gresham Machen[1], she wrote a tribute to Machen in the New Republic:
| “ | [Machen] was worth a hundred of his fellows who, as princes of the church, occupy easy places and play their church politics and trim their sails to every wind.[1] | ” |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hart, D. G. "Christianity, Modern Liberalism, and J. Gresham Machen." Modern Age 1997 39(3): 234-245.