Christianity & Culture
Posted by tom | Oct 15, 2005More fall weekend reading from the Mars Hill Audio archives:
J. Gresham Machen's Christianity & Culture
In the mid-1990s Mars Hill Audio printed a series of essays that we think make important arguments about Christian involvement with culture. We are in the process of converting these to digital files and posting them to our webpages. The first to be made available is Christianity & Culture, by J. Gresham Machen. First presented in an address at Princeton seminary in 1912, this powerful essay argues that many of his contemporaries treated the Gospel with indifference because the cultural climate in which they lived assumed it to be irrelevant. As an antidote, he calls Christians to be energetically involved in cultural life. Christianity & Culture is available in either HTML or PDF formats.
A related essay, J. Gresham Machen and the Problem of Christian Civilization in America, by historian and Machen biographer D. G. Hart, describes the cultural and ecclesiastical setting within which Machen mounted his critique against theological modernism, set forth most succinctly in his book Christianity and Liberalism. This essay is also available in either HTML or PDF formats.
