Church and Society

    Reflection on: J. Gresham Machen, the Reformed Tradition, and the Transformation of Culture                     J. Gresham Machen was one of the most influential evangelical scholars of the twentieth century; his work on The Vu-gin Birth of Christ remains an outstanding piece of scholarship, but he was more than an academic scholar and played an important part in church politics. Dr Hart, who is librarian at Westminster. Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, discusses Machen's contribution to understanding the relationship between the church and contemporary culture.             For Machen the hallmark of Reformed thought is the idea that Christianity involves the transformation of culture as well as the proclamation of the gospel. He was right when he mentioned that the transformation of culture is proclaimed of the gospel...