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title: 'Stonehouse on Machen’s Passion For Liberty'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-01-22
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-stonehouse-on-machens-passion-for-liberty
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# Stonehouse on Machen’s Passion For Liberty

“[Machen’s](/authors/j-gresham-machen) outlook is not grasped at all unless one discerns that he was passionately devoted to liberty and that this commitment was anchored profoundly in his Christian faith and outlook. In an era when the state was encroaching more and more upon the liberty of the individual, Machen was greatly exercised that men should be aroused to pay the price necessary to preserve it.” — Ned B. Stonehouse, *J. Gresham Machen: A Biographical Memoir* (1954), p. 406