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Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestant

Darryl G Hart
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A perspective shaping study of an unconventional man and his times. As religion grew detached from affluence and influence in the United States, J. Gresham Machen found common ground with secular voices in rallying against the liberalization of the Protestant church. Going beyond biography, this valuable and rewarding work redefines our understanding of early twentieth century religion, science and modernism.
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Publisher's Description

A study of Machen’s thought and career that says much about the issues that unsettled mainstream Protestantism’s hold on American intellectual and cultural life.

Specifications
  • Cover Type
    Paperback
  • ISBN
    9780875525631
  • Page Count
    228
  • Weight
    0.74 lb
  • Publisher
    P&R Publishing Company
  • Publication Date
    2003

Endorsements (4)

“Provides Machen with a deserved biography, rewarding for the way Hart sets the theologian into the context of the 1920s.”

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Martin E. Marty

Journal of American History

“A readable and compelling narrative. . . . Machen remains worth hearing, and Hart succeeds admirably at making him audible.”

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Allen C. Guelzo

Christianity Today

“Defending the Faith reads with the passion and pathos of historical reconstruction at its best. Hart is a gifted writer, and his subject is a fascinating individual.”

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R. Albert Mohler Jr.

Preaching

“Hart writes lucid prose about a figure he knows inside and out. By helping us understand Machen, we come to understand an entire era in American church history.”

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Kevin DeYoung

University Reformed Church (PCA), East Lansing Michigan

About the Author

D. G. Hart lives in Michigan with his wife, Ann, and their two cats, Isabelle and Cordelia, where he teaches history at Hillsdale College. Hart used to be an East-Coast snob (though he still roots for the Phillies) but while living in a small mid-western town he has learned that life exists outside the Northeast Corridor. He is currently completing a global history of Calvinism and plans to write books on H. L. Mencken and American religion, and on Roman Catholicism and American conservatism.

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