Machen knew that emptying Christianity of its historical claims would leave only a lifeless shell behind. True spiritual life is not opposed to history, but is produced by a God who acts in history.

Resources to Click

Theology Simply Profound’s Audiobook of Machen’s Christianity & Liberalism
History and Faith by J. Gresham Machen
What is Faith? by J. Gresham Machen
J. Gresham Machen’s Response to Modernism – John Piper

Books to Read

Christianity and Liberalism – J. Gresham Machen
Dictionary of Christianity in America – Ed. Reid, Linder, Shelley, Stout
Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism – George Marsden
Princeton Seminary – David Calhoun
The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism – William R. Hutchison
What is Christianity? Notable Addresses from a Noble Defender of the Faith – J. Gresham Machen & Ned B. Stonehouse
Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America – D.G. Hart
J. Gresham Machen – Ned B. Stonehouse
W. Stanford Reid: An Evangelical Calvinist in the Academy – Donald MacLeod
Models for Scripture – John Goldingjay

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