This volume sustains, and more than sustains, Dr. -Samuel Craig.
To the reviewer at least it is a source of much satisfaction to know that what is confessedly the most exhaustive and most scholarly book on the problem of the Virgin Birth of Christ ever published, at least in English, has been written by a man who after having acquainted himself with everything of importance that has been written on the subject since the first century, no matter in what language, holds to the historic belief of the Christian Church that its founder was born without human father, being conceived by the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin Mary.
Certainly no minister or Bible teacher of adults can afford to ignore this book.
Machen writes so simply and lucidly that men and women of intelligence everywhere, whatever their standing as technical scholars, will be able to read it with understanding and profit.
But while this is the case, Dr.
It would be difficult to point to a book anywhere that is more thorough-going in its recital and examination of all that bears upon the subject with which it deals.
Machen\'s latest book, it is true, like \'The Origin of Paul\'s Religion\', moves throughout in the field of exact scholarship.
Machen.\' Dr.
We shall do well to listen to Dr.
For its acumen, for its saliency, and for its wit, this cool and stringent defense of orthodox Protestantism is, I think, the best popular argument produced by either side in the current controversy.
Machen as \'both a scholar and a gentleman\' but says of his book, \'Christianity and Liberalism\': \'It is an admirable book.
Machen\'s, in his widely read book, \'A Preface to Morals\', not only speaks of Dr.
Walter Lippmann, whose theological position is about as far removed as possible from that of Dr.
It will be recalled that Mr.
Machen fills them with eager expectancy---whatever may be their theological position.
His former books, \'The Origin of Paul\'s Religion\' (1921), \'Christianity and Liberalism\' (1923) and \'What is Faith?\' (1925), have so whetted the appetites of their thousands of readers that the announcement of a new book by Dr.
Machen\'s reputation as not only one of the world\'s foremost New Testament scholars but as one of the ablest defenders of historic Christianity.
This volume sustains, and more than sustains, Dr
