Machen Biographies

[ReadBavinck]

What's the difference between Stonehouse's bio of Machen and the D.G. Hart bio?

 

[Puritanhead]

One is good and one is really good. I hope that hopes.

 

[ReadBavinck]

It "hopes" a lot.

 

[New wine skin]

DG Hart on Machen has a permanent place in my library. Hart's bio on Machen is an invaluable work for anyone wanting a lens into early 20th century American church history.

 

[Laura]

Mmm, definitely go for Hart's. The biography illuminates Machen's character well enough, but I also got the unexpected bonus of considerable doctrinal, ecclesiological, political, and historical education.

[Edited on 8-29-2006 by Laura]

 

[R. Scott Clark]

Hi Chris,

Stonehouse was a great NT scholar. A pioneer and not appreciated enough. Much evangelical NT work has been a footnote since NBS, but he was not an historian by trade or vocation.

His volume on Machen is moving and most valuable (a must for any of "Machen's Warrior Children"!) and the work of a friend but Hart's is the work of a professional and skilled historian.

Get 'em both. Everything DGH has written is worth having, especially The Lost Soul of American Protestantism.

rsc

Originally posted by CJ_Chelpka
What's the difference between Stonehouse's bio of Machen and the D.G. Hart bio?