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

Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
ISBN: 9780875525631
Publication Date: 03/07/03

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.

About the Author
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.

Endorsements
“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