Charles Erdman

Charles Rosenbury Erdman, Sr. (1866-1960) was an American Presbyterian minister and professor of theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Erdman was born on July 20, 1866 in Fayetteville, New York to William J. Erdman, a leader in the premilennialist and holiness movements of the late nineteenth century. He earned his B.A. (1886) from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and went on to study at Princeton Theological Seminary from 1887 to 1891. Erdman was ordained on May 8, 1891 in the Presbytery of Philadelphia North, PCUSA.

Erdman served as pastor of Overbrook Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia from 1891 to 1897, and then at First Presbyterian Church in Germantown from 1897 to 1906. He joined the faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1905, where he served as professor of practical theology until his retirement in 1936. During that time, Erdman was elected the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in 1925, and also served as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey from 1924 to 1934.

Erdman was a major voice for tolerance toward deviation from the Westminster Standards, in opposition to J. Gresham Machen, which led to the reorganization of the seminary and some faculty breaking off from Princeton to form Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929.

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