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Although Machen has always been considered a fundamentalist, he did not call himself one because he said that as a [[Calvinist]] he stood in the mainstream  of "the historic Christian faith." The "central current of the Church's life," he  argued, is that current "which flows down from the Word of God through [[Augustine]] and [[John Calvin|Calvin]], and which has found noteworthy expression in America in the great tradition represented by [[Charles Hodge]] and [[Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield]] and the other representatives of the 'Princeton School.'"

Although Machen has always been considered a fundamentalist, he did not call himself one because he said that as a [[Calvinist]] he stood in the mainstream  of "the historic Christian faith." The "central current of the Church's life," he  argued, is that current "which flows down from the Word of God through [[Augustine]] and [[John Calvin|Calvin]], and which has found noteworthy expression in America in the great tradition represented by [[Charles Hodge]] and [[Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield]] and the other representatives of the 'Princeton School.'"

==Scholarship==

==Scholarship==

Machen was a leading scholar of the Bible. He is famous for two major responses to historical-critical attacks upon the integrity of the New Testament.  Machen set forth evidence for the reliability of the New Testament's witness to Christ. To refute the modernists who who posited a radical discontinuity between the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul, Machen wrote ''The Origin of Paul's Religion'' (1921), arguing that the religion of Paul was at its heart a religion of faith in the Jesus who lived, died, and rose again to redeem his people from their sins. In ''The Virgin Birth of Christ'' (1930), Machen argued that supenaturalistic claims can better explain the New Testament's witness to Christ than arguments that a priori reject the possibility of the supernatural. Machen said that the virgin birth is an "integral part" of the gospel, and that it cannot be removed from the New Testament account of Jesus without making the whole account "harder and not easier to accept."  

Machen was a leading scholar of the Bible. He is famous for two major responses to historical-critical attacks upon the integrity of the New Testament.  Machen set forth evidence for the reliability of the New Testament's witness to Christ. To refute the modernists who who posited a radical discontinuity between the religion of Jesus and the religion of Paul, Machen wrote ''The Origin of Paul's Religion'' (1921), arguing that the religion of Paul was at its heart a religion of faith in the Jesus who lived, died, and rose again to redeem his people from their sins. In ''The Virgin Birth of Christ'' (1930), Machen argued that supenaturalistic claims can better explain the New Testament's witness to Christ than arguments that ''[[a priori]]'' reject the possibility of the supernatural. Machen said that the virgin birth is an "integral part" of the gospel, and that it cannot be removed from the New Testament account of Jesus without making the whole account "harder and not easier to accept."  

He died of pneumonia in the bitter January cold of North Dakota while visiting one of the churches in his new denomination.

He died of pneumonia in the bitter January cold of North Dakota while visiting one of the churches in his new denomination.