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

Author: D. G. Hart Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780875525631 0875525636

J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937), writes D. G. Hart, was the scion of a prominent and genteel Baltimore family, who studied at the finest American and European universities and, while teaching at Princeton Seminary, went on to become one of the United States's leading authorities in New Testament studies. Defending the Faith explains how a privileged and learned Protestant became embroiled in the religious disputes of the 1920s, writes Hart. This study, he continues, has much to tell us not just about the issues that unsettled--some would say unseated--mainstream Protestantism's hold on American intellectual and cultural life. But it also offers a distinctive and revealing perspective on the way we have come to assess and locate religion, science, and modernity in the early twentieth century. This biography, the first of Machen since 1955, originally appeared in 1994. Similar books: Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Tom by Lyle Leverich The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan The Kindness of Strangers by Donald Spoto Anthony Trollope by Victoria Glendinning Eudora Welty by Suzanne Marrs A Rage to Live by Mary S. Lovell First Light by Geoffrey Wellum Jonathan Edwards by Iain H. Murray Hoover by Kenneth Whyte The Shorter Pepys by Samuel Pepys Heart of a Soldier by James B. Stewart