Welcome to five minutes in church history hosted by Dr Stephen Nichols, where we take a little

break from the present to go exploring the past. Travel back in time as we look at the people,

events, and even the places that have shaped the story of Christianity.

This is our story, our family history. Let's get started.

John Murray was born in Scotland in 1898.

In those early decades of the 20th century as the world found itself at war,

John Murray enlisted and was in the Black War. The world found itself at war.

John Murray enlisted and was in the Black Watch Regiment fighting in World War I.

He was a casualty of that war and he lost an eye.

When his time was finished in the war,

he went on to study at the University of Glasgow.

He studied the subject of divinity.

When he was done at Glasgow,

he decided to cross the Atlantic and study at Princeton and there he came under the

tutelage of J. Gressum-Machin and Gerhardus Voss.

He actually taught at Princeton's seminary for a year, and then he left Princeton.

He left Princeton to go with Machen, to cross the Delaware River and start up Westminster

Theological Seminary.

Murray was appointed as a professor of systematic theology,

and that was a post that he held from 1930

until the time of his retirement in 1968.

He taught an entire generation of pastors in systematic theology.

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