J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir (Hardcover)

~ Ned B. Stonehouse (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 520 pages
• Publisher: Banner of Truth (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0851515010
• ISBN-13: 978-0851515014
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,001,986 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Important, March 16, 2001

By	Raymond Cannata "Rev. R. Cannata" (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I can't believe this book has gone out of print. It is a nicely done biography by a close friend and colleague of Dr. Machen. Better still is D.G. Hart's bio. *Defending the Faith.*

Dr. Machen remains one of the greatest and most misunderstood theologians of the 20th century. Stonehouse's bio. is a good place to begin understanding why.

5.0 out of 5 stars J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir, September 8, 2007

By	cortezhill (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

A monument to the great leader of the modern evangelical movement and the author of many classical works of apologetics, this definitive biography of J. Gresham Machen by his intimate friend, associate and successor, is base upon vast amount of letters, memoranda and other documents(filling nearly thirty drawers in the Machen files) in addition to the author's personal reminiscences, and an evaluation of Machen's published writings.

an intimate and personal account which leaves no aspect of Machen's full and brilliant life untoouched, Ned B. Stonehouse's full-scale portrait is a vivid and inspiring picture of a Christian of apostolic ardor who, at his untimely death in 1937, was called "the first Protestant minister in the nation." Acknowledged by his critics and admirers alike as the greatest leader of the whole cause of evangelical Christianity in modern times, Machen raised the intellectual acuteness of Protestant orthodoxy to a point where observers such as H. L. Mencken and Walter Lippmann claimed that in the religious debates of the twenties and thirties, the liberals had yet to answer him.

Writing out of the experiences of more than seven years of intimate asociation with Machen and a wealth of sources which reveal completely the mind and heart of this learned and valiant spiritual warrior, Stonehouse tells the complete Machen story: the childhood years, the student days at Princeton under Warfield and Patton, the years abroad at the universities of Marburg and Gottingen, and again in 1918-19 in France and Belgium, Machen's books, his deep attachment to his remarkable mother, his cultural pursuits and love of literature, and the historic controversies at Princeton which led to his reorganization of that seminary, and to the founding of Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, in which Machen played a leading role.

Dr. Stonehouse's biography is a perceptive and illuminating account which reveals in Machen, warmly and personally, both the man and the scholar; and, becaue of Machen's weighty influence over the ecclesiastical world of his time, is an intimate history of the twentieth century evangelical struggle.
--- from book's back cover