Machen & Apologetics

ABOUT THE MESSAGE: Apologetics is the defense of the Christian faith, and it was crucially important to J. Gresham Machen. He dedicated his scholarly output to defending essential points of the faith against modernistic reinterpretations. In this lesson, Dr. Nichols defines apologetics and Machen’s approach to apologetics, underscoring its role in exposing error and preserving the gospel as well as its role in bolstering our faith.

ABOUT THE SERIES: In 1923, J. Gresham Machen wrote his classic work Christianity and Liberalism. Machen understood that he lived in a time that needed answers. People needed to know the fundamental doctrinal convictions of Christianity in an age of compromise. Modernism was threatening the church, and liberals within the church were seeking to accommodate it, calling into question bedrock doctrines of the faith. In this teaching series, Dr. Stephen J. Nichols reminds us of who Machen was, why his book is still important, and how it teaches us that there is only one true, uncompromising Christian faith.