Christianity and Liberalism
I have had a book called Christianity & Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen for a while. The book has been sitting on my shelf collecting dust, but recently I found the urge to begin reading it after seeing it mentioned on Challies. Challies also previewed the book by quoting Machen’s own thoughts about the purpose of writing his book.
In my little book,Christianity and Liberalism, 1923, I tried to show that the issue in the Church of the present day is not between two varieties of the same religion, but, at bottom, between two essentially different types of thought and life. There is much interlocking of the branches, but the two tendencies, Modernism and supernaturalism, or (otherwise designated) non-doctrinal religion and historic Christianity, spring from different roots. In particular, I tried to show that Christianity is not a “life,” as distinguished from a doctrine, and not a life that has doctrine as its changing symbolic expression, but that—exactly the other way around—it is a life founded on a doctrine.
It seems like the disparity rings true today. Read with me!
HT: Tim Challies
