The Christ the Center panelists interact with Dr. Darryl G. Hart about Dr. Fundamentalis, J. Gresham Machen. Machen, erstwhile professor of NT at Princeton Theological Seminary until its reorganization in 1929, was the pioneer of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia and the denomination that would become known as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Hart explains the historical and continuing contemporary significance of Machen as well intriguing details of his life and work. Among highlights of the conversation are Machen’s formation of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and the discussion of Machen’s literary legacy. While Machen was at the center of controversy with the establishment of Westminster, it was the founding of the IBPFM that led to his defrocking from the ministry in the PCUSA and his starting the OPC. Machen is well known for his popular and scholarly works. His best known scholarly tomes are The Origin of Paul’s Religion and The Virgin Birth. Machen produced many popular works such as What is Faith? and God Transcendent but the work he is best known for, and which still reads as fresh as it did when published seven decades ago is Christianity and Liberalism. Dr. Hart draws from his biography of Machen, Defending the Faith, and the edited work The Selected Shorter Writings of J. Gresham Machen. Listeners will go away from this program with a strong desire to enlist among Machen’s warrior children!
Panel
- Darryl G. Hart
- Gary L. W. Johnson
- Jeff Waddington
- Nick Batzig
- Camden Bucey
Links
- Ararat
- Accordance Bible software
- The Gospel Coalition
- Fosdick’s sermon “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?“
Bibliography
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Fesko, J. Justification : Understanding the Classic Reformed Doctrine. Phillipsburg N.J.: P&R Pub., 2008.
Fosdick, Harry Emerson. Shall the Fundamentalists Win? : A Sermon Preached at the First Presbyterian Church, New York, May 21, 1922. New York, 1922.
Gamble, Richard C. The Whole Counsel Of God. Presbyterian & Reformed Pub Co, 2008.
Hall, David. A Theological Guide to Calvin’s Institutes: Essays and Analysis. Phillipsburg N.J.: P&R Pub., 2008.
Hart, D. Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic, 2004.
Hart, D. G. “Doctor Fundamentalis”: An Intellectual Biography of J. Gresham Machen, 1881-1937, 1988.
—. A Secular Faith: Why Christianity Favors the Separation of Church and State. Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006.
—. Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America. P & R Publishing, 2003.
Johnson, Gary L. W., and Ronald N. Gleason. Reforming or Conforming? : Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2008.
Macartney, Clarence Edward Noble. Shall Unbelief Win?: A Reply to Dr. Fosdick. Philadelphia: Wilbur Hanf, 1900.
Machen, J. Gresham. Christianity and Liberalism. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1923.
—. The Christian Faith in the Modern World. New York: Macmillan Co., 1936.
—. The Christian View of Man. New York: The Macmillan company, 1937.
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—. What is Faith? New York: The Macmillan company, 1925.
Machen, J. Gresham, and D. G. Hart. Selected Shorter Writings. Phillipsburg, N.J.: P&R Pub., 2004.
Machen, J. Gresham, and Dan G. McCartney. New Testament Greek for Beginners. 2nd ed. Prentice Hall, 2003.
Machen, J. Gresham, and John Hamilton Skilton. Machen’s Notes on Galatians: And Other Aids to the Interpretation of the Epistle to the Galatians. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1972.
Nichols, Stephen. Jesus Made in America: Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ. Downers Grove Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2008.
North, Gary. Crossed Fingers : How the Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church. Tyler, Tex.: Institute for Christian Economics, 1996.
Reynolds, John Mark, Roger Overton (eds.). The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2008.
Participants: Camden Bucey, Darryl G. Hart, Gary L. W. Johnson, Jeff Waddington, Nick Batzig
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