an altogether different religion from historic Christianity. What follows is a summary of Machen’s objections to modernism, along with British reactions to his arguments. The wide and warm hearing that he received from British writers suggests that the Princeton critique of liberalism has been too easily dismissed as simple-minded defence of inerrancy. In the end, Machen’s brand of Calvinism may not escape the charge of rationalism or scholasticism. However his apology for the intellectual and doctrinal