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In this classic treatise first published in 1925, J. Gresham Machen explores biblical answers to this pivotal question. Lamenting the “false and disastrous opposition which has been set up between knowledge and faith” and continuing what was his long-running polemic against liberalism, Machen speaks out against halfhearted, watered-down attempts at faith that seek to engage the heart and the soul...

view first faith in God and second faith in Jesus Christ. In the classic treatment of faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews, there is a verse that goes to the very root of the matter. “He that cometh to God,” the author says, “must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”1 Here we find a rejection in advance of all the pragmatist, non-doctrinal Christianity of modern times. In the first place, religion is here made to depend absolutely upon doctrine; the one
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