The Reformed Tradition and the Transformation of Culture By D. G. Hart D. G. Hart, the Westminster Theological Seminary librarian in Philadelphia, wrote this essay to present an alternative vision for cultural transformation gleaned from the ideas of J. Gresham Machen. To have a better appreciation of this alternative, one must compare Machen’s vision with the two dominant views, that of the neo-evangelicals and the ideas of H. Richard Niebuhr. Before presenting Machen’s stance on cultural transformation, D. G. Hart mentioned first his personal assessment of the man. He recognized Machen as “one of the most influential evangelical scholars of the twentieth century” and “had been a leading spokesman for conservative Protestantism” from 1906 to 1929 (p. 305)." With the founding of Westminster Theological Seminary in 1929, “Machen became the leading conservative in the Northern Presbyterian Church (PCUSA)” (ibid.). This decision to start a new seminary later resulted to the forma...
This course covers three areas considered important in Christian social thought: cultural, political, and with particular emphasis on economics. Studying the current issues under the identified three dimensions in relation to revelation, our goal is to appreciate, to critique, and to come up with a way of thinking and with a kind of activism based on Christian worldview.