American Presbyterian New Testament scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary who led the conservative opposition to theological liberalism, founded Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929 and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1936.
A survey of biblical history written for teacher training and popular reading, in thirty-eight short lessons: fifteen tracing the development of the church in Old Testament times from the beginnings in Genesis to the return from exile, and twenty-three on the life of Christ and the apostolic church from the intertestamental preparation to the close of the apostolic age, each lesson ending with review questions.
Machen's address on the relation of Christianity to modern learning, rejecting both the subordination of faith to culture and its flight from culture, and calling for culture to be consecrated to God through Christian scholarship.
Machen's argument that theological liberalism is not a variety of Christianity but a different religion, comparing the two on doctrine, God and man, the Bible, Christ, salvation and the church.
Machen's inaugural address as assistant professor of New Testament at Princeton, arguing that Christianity is founded on historical events, above all the resurrection, and cannot survive if faith is detached from history.
Machen's 1921 Sprunt Lectures arguing that Paul's religion derived from Jesus and the Jerusalem church rather than from Hellenistic mystery cults or Jewish apocalyptic, with Paul's own testimony and modern critical theories examined.
