ties to Princeton Theological Seminary and the seminary has honored him with the creation of the Buechner Prize for Writing. Princeton sponsored and hosted the Buechner Writing Workshop in June 2015. Also, Princeton Theological Seminary has given copies of Buechner's Telling the Truth to students as part of their graduation. People Principals and Presidents of Princeton Theological Seminary Prior to the creation of the office of President in 1902, the seminary was governed by the principal. The Principals Archibald Alexander (1812–1850) Charles Hodge (1851–1878) Archibald Alexander Hodge (1878–1886) B. B. Warfield (1887–1902) The Presidents Francis Landey Patton (1902–1913) J. Ross Stevenson (1914–1936) John A. Mackay (1936–1959) James I. McCord (1959–1983) Thomas W. Gillespie (1983–2004) Iain R. Torrance (2004–2012) M. Craig Barnes (2013–2023) Jonathan L. Walton (2023-) Notable faculty (past and present) Diogenes Allen Dale C. Allison Bernhard Anderson William Park Armstrong Emil Brunner Donald Eric Capps James H. Charlesworth Ellen Charry F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp Jane Dempsey Douglass Freda Gardner L. Gordon Graham George Hendry John Hick Archibald Alexander Hodge Charles Hodge Elmer G. Homrighausen George Hunsinger James Franklin Kay J. Gresham Machen Bruce L. McCormack Bruce Metzger Patrick D. Miller Samuel Miller Otto Piper Luis N. Rivera-Pagán J. J. M. Roberts Katharine Doob Sakenfeld C. L. Seow Richard Shaull Mark S. Smith Max L. Stackhouse Loren Stuckenbruck Mark Lewis Taylor Wentzel van Huyssteen Geerhardus Vos B. B. Warfield Robert Dick Wilson Robert Jenson Notable alumni James Waddel Alexander, 1823 William Patterson Alexander, missionary to Hawaii Oswald T. Allis, 1905 Rubem Alves, 1968, theologian Gleason Archer, 1945, evangelical theologian Albert Barnes, 1823 Howard Baskerville Louis Berkhof, 1904 Loraine Boettner, 1929 Greg Boyd, 1987 James Montgomery Boice, 1963 William Whiting Borden Dave Brat, 1990, Randolph-Macon College professor and Congressional candidate in Virginia's 7th District Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, 1832 G. Thompson Brown, 1950, missionary, founder of Honam Theological Academy (now Honam Theological University and Seminary). Hugh M. Browne, 1878, educator, principal of the Institute for Colored Youth Ernest T. Campbell, pastor, Riverside Church Eugene Cho, 1997, president of Bread for the World Hunter Corbett, was a pioneer American missionary to Yantai, Shandong China Jack Cottrell John Finley Crowe, 1815, founder of Hanover College Michael Simpson Culbertson, 1844, missionary to China Kathy Dawson, Associate Professor of Christian Education and Director of M.A.P.T. Program at Columbia Theological Seminary; Association of Presbyterian Church Educators' 2015 Educator of the Year. William Dembski, Philosopher, Mathematician, and Intelligent Design