God Transcendent and Other Sermons
Overview
J. Gresham Machen is considered the last in the lineage of the Great Princeton Theologians, following in the steps of Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, A. A. Hodge, and B. B. Warfield. Machen taught at Princeton Seminary for almost 15 years and established himself as a well respected New Testament scholar. After a dispute that divided faculty members over an emerging modernist theology, Machen left Princeton and became one of the principal founders of Westminster Theological Seminary, where he taught until his death.
God Transcendent and Other Sermons contains 20 sermons, including the last one he preached just five days before his death. Sermons include “Prophets False and True,” “The Active Obedience of Christ,” “The Bible and the Cross,” and more.
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Key Features
- Provides a stringent defense of orthodox Protestantism
- Contains 20 influential sermons not originally intended for publication
- Examines the crucial differences between Christianity and “liberalism”
Contents
- God Transcendent
- Isaiah’s Scorn of Idolatry
- The Fear of God
- Sin’s Wages and God’s Gift
- The Issue in the Church
- The Letter and the Spirit
- The Brotherhood in Christ
- The Claims of Love
- The Living Saviour
- Justified by Faith
- The Gospel and Modern Substitutes
- The Separateness of the Church
- Prophets False and True
- The Good Fight of Faith
- Constraining Love
- The Creeds and Doctrinal Advance
- Christ Our Redeemer
- The Doctrine of the Atonement
- The Active Obedience of Christ
- The Bible and the Cross
Top Highlights
“We preachers do not preach hell enough, and we do not say enough about sin. We talk about the gospel and wonder why people are not interested in what we say. Of course they are not interested. No man is interested in a piece of good news unless he has the consciousness of needing it; no man is interested in an offer of salvation unless he knows that there is something from which he needs to be saved. It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin.” (Page 34)
“What is really meant by this non-doctrinal, non-controversial religion is that we have given up the search for truth altogether; we have given up the grounding of our life upon anything that is permanently and objectively true. Such is the modern Epistle to the Romans. It is the expression of a bottomless skepticism.” (Page 96)
“He pervades all, but He also transcends all, and He has never abandoned His freedom in the presence of the things that He has made.” (Page 19)
“a message in which Jesus is offered as the Saviour of men” (Page 69)
“They both of them favor the notion that the ethical attributes of God may be summed up in the one attribute—benevolence. They both of them tend to distort the great Scriptural assertion that ‘God is love’ into the very different assertion that God is nothing but love. They both of them tend to find the supreme end of the creation in the happiness or well-being of the creature. They both of them fail utterly to attain to any high notion of the awful holiness of God.” (Page 182)
Product Details
- Title: God Transcendent and Other Sermons
- Author: J. Gresham Machen
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 1949
- Pages: 189
John Gresham Machen (July 28, 1881–January 1, 1937) was an American Presbyterian theologian in the early twentieth century. He was the professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary between 1915 and 1929, and led a conservative revolt against modernist theology at Princeton and formed Westminster Theological Seminary as a more orthodox alternative.