John

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New Testament scholar Presbyterian human theologian

John is the given name of J. Gresham Machen, an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
John canonical	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	New Testament scholar ⓘ Presbyterian ⓘ human ⓘ theologian ⓘ
academicDiscipline	biblical studies ⓘ theology ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
educatedAt	Johns Hopkins University ⓘ Princeton Theological Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ Princeton University ⓘ
employer	Princeton Theological Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ Westminster Theological Seminary NERFINISHED ⓘ
era	early 20th-century theology ⓘ
familyName	Machen NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Christian apologetics ⓘ New Testament studies NERFINISHED ⓘ systematic theology ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	biblical scholarship ⓘ theological literature ⓘ
givenName	John NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Orthodox Presbyterian Church NERFINISHED ⓘ conservative Reformed churches in North America ⓘ
influencedBy	B. B. Warfield NERFINISHED ⓘ Geerhardus Vos NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	critique of theological liberalism ⓘ defense of historic Reformed orthodoxy ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
movement	Reformed theology NERFINISHED ⓘ conservative Presbyterianism ⓘ fundamentalism ⓘ
nationality	American ⓘ
nativeLanguage	English ⓘ
notableWork	Christianity and Liberalism NERFINISHED ⓘ The Origin of Paul’s Religion NERFINISHED ⓘ The Virgin Birth of Christ NERFINISHED ⓘ What Is Faith? NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	biblical scholar ⓘ theologian ⓘ
positionHeld	founder of Westminster Theological Seminary ⓘ leader in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ Presbyterian ⓘ surface form: Presbyterianism
theologicalTradition	Calvinism NERFINISHED ⓘ Reformed Presbyterianism NERFINISHED ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: John
Description of subject: John is the given name of J. Gresham Machen, an influential early 20th-century American Presbyterian theologian and New Testament scholar.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Machen → givenName → John ⓘ

subject surface form: J. Gresham Machen