Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America

by Darryl G. Hart

Publisher:

P & R Publishing

, 2003

Overview

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.

Key Features

• Reads with the passion and pathos of historical reconstruction at its best.
• Provides edifying challenges and enough food for thought to support a hibernation.
• Sets the theologian into the context of the 1920s.

Praise for

Reads with the passion and pathos of historical reconstruction at its best and most honest. Hart is a gifted writer, and he has taken as his subject a fascinating individual set withing one of the most formative moments in modern Protestantism.

—R. Albert Mohler

Hart’s portrait of Machen provides a novel perspective that merits the attention of those interested not just in fundamentalism but in the place of faith in modern America.

—Bradley J. Longfield

Product Details

• Title: Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America
• Author: Darryl G. Hart
• Publisher: P & R Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2003
• Pages: 240
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780875525631, 0875525636
• Resource ID: LLS:DFNDNGFTHMDRMRC
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-14T19:21:37Z

About Darryl G. Hart

D. G. Hart, studied American history at the Johns Hopkins University and has served as director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College and academic dean and professor of church history at Westminster Seminary in California. He is currently visiting assistant professor of history at Hillsdale College.