Ep. 1059 Against the Social Gospel: J. Gresham Machen Against the Liberals
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Tom Woods
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🗓️ 14 December 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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J. Gresham Machen, whom many listeners have urged me to do an episode about, taught at Princeton Theological Seminary for many years and was a significant figure in American Presbyterianism who fought against theological liberalism among Protestants. His political views, interestingly enough, were profoundly libertarian.
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| 0:35.0 | Darrell Hart is with me today. He is the author of a book about a guy you may not have heard of, but who's a very significant figure in the history of American Protestantism. The book is called Defending the Faith, J. Gresham-Machan and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America. I have had, believe it or not, many, many requests |
| 0:56.6 | to do an episode on Jay Gresham-Machan. And now, I first heard about him in college, but I bet a lot of |
| 1:03.5 | people never heard of this guy before. He was a very significant American theologian, |
| 1:08.8 | a conservative theologian, who was also very libertarian in his views, |
| 1:14.3 | way more libertarian than a lot of the libertarians we deal with on a daily basis. |
| 1:19.0 | So very interesting, but also interesting because he was fighting against the social gospel movement |
| 1:25.1 | and the remnants of that. |
| 1:27.1 | Well, I shouldn't say remnants. The thing spread like |
| 1:29.2 | wildfire throughout American religious life. In other words, the idea that the gospel message |
| 1:36.1 | needs to be adapted to make sure that we're focusing enough on railroad regulation and stuff |
| 1:41.0 | like that. So joining me to talk about this is, of course, Daryl Hart, who, |
| 1:45.6 | in addition to being the author of this book and many other books besides, is Distinguished |
| 1:49.8 | Visiting Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He holds his PhD in U.S. History from Johns |
| 1:56.0 | Hopkins University. Darrell, welcome to the show. Thanks, Tom. It's great to be with you. |
| 2:01.6 | Now, this book of yours, Defending the Faith, I just told people about, I enjoyed this very much. I think you and I have |
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