Guide to the works of J. Gresham Machen (1881–1937). Scholar. Preacher. Founder of Westminster Theological Seminary. Leader in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

▷ J. Gresham Machen: Selected Shorter Writings

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Contents

Part One: Christ and the Witness of Scripture

  1. What the Bible Teaches about Jesus
  2. The Witness of Paul
  3. The Witness of the Gospels
  4. The Virgin Birth of Christ
  5. The Resurrection of Christ

Part Two: Christianity and Modern Substitutes

  1. What Is Christianity?
  2. History and Faith
  3. Does Fundamentalism Obstruct Social Progress?
  4. What Fundamentalism Stands for Now
  5. What Is the Gospel?

Part Three: The Task of Christian Scholarship

  1. Christian Scholarship and Evangelism
  2. Christian Scholarship and the Defense of the Faith
  3. Christian Scholarship and the Building Up of the Church
  4. The Necessity of the Christian School
  5. Forty Years of New Testament Research

Part Four: Theological Education

  1. Westminster Theological Seminary: Its Purpose and Plan
  2. Facing the Facts before God
  3. Consolations in the Midst of Battle
  4. Servants of God or Servants of Men
  5. The Minister and His Greek Testament

Part Five: The Nature and Mission of the Church

  1. The Parting of the Ways
  2. The Mission of the Church
  3. The Christian View of Missions
  4. The Truth about the Presbyterian Church
  5. Is There a Future for Calvinism in the Presbyterian Church?
  6. The New Presbyterian Hymnal

Part Six: The Presbyterian Controversy

  1. Statement to the Special Commission of 1925
  2. Statement to the Committee to Investigate Princeton
  3. The Attack upon Princeton Seminary: A Plea for Fair Play
  4. Statement to the Presbytery of New Brunswick

Part Seven: Church and Society

  1. Christianity and Liberty
  2. The Responsibility of the Church in Our New Age
  3. The Church in the War
  4. Voices in the Church
  5. Statement on the Eighteenth Amendment

Part Eight: Christianity and Culture

  1. Christianity and Culture
  2. Relations between Jews and Christians
  3. The Christian and Human Relationships
  4. Mountains and Why We Love Them
  5. The Benefits of Walking

Part Nine: Reviews

  1. Review of Speer’s Some Living Issues
  2. Review of Fosdick’s Modern Use of the Bible
  3. Review of McGiffert’s God of the Early Christians
  4. Review of Mullins’s Christianity at the Cross Roads
  5. Karl Barth and “The Theology of Crisis”

Part Ten: Autobiographical

  1. Christianity in Conflict

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