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Title: Still important, but nothing new here
Review: This is an important book for people interested in American Protestant church history, especially the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy of the 1920s. Machen is a good writer and had a keen mind. This is a book, not of theology, but of doctrines explained from a fundamentalist perspective. Machen believed that Christianity was a set of infallible "truths" based on "facts" that are gleaned from an inerrant Bible. One must accept these "truths" and that's how you get "saved." Modernists are lost, of course, since they only want to to destroy Christianity. Machen is wrong on this point, and his arguments are convincing only to those already convinced because they, too, share his ideological worldview. An important book worth reading, in the same way an artifact in a museum is important. But there is nothing new here and no contructive theology going on; only defensiveness and polemics.
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