Christianity and Liberalism explained

Author:	J. Gresham Machen
Publisher:	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub Date:	1923

Christianity and Liberalism is a 1923 book by J. Gresham Machen. It was written in response to Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 sermon "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?", thus triggering the fundamentalist–modernist controversy.^{[1] [2]}

Machen argued that Liberal Christianity constitute a distinct religion, since it denied substitutionary atonement.^[3] However, its true nature was, according to Machen, "hidden by the duplicitous use of traditional terms and categories by liberal clergy."^[4] Machen wrote,^{[5] [6] [7]}

The liberal attempt at reconciling Christianity with modern science has really relinquished everything distinctive of Christianity, so that what remains is in essentials only that same indefinite type of religious aspiration which was in the world before Christianity came upon the scene.

Iain H. Murray calls Christianity and Liberalism "one of the most important books of all times".^{[8] [9]}

External links

• Christianity and Liberalism at Wikimedia Commons

Notes and References

1. Web site: Todd . Obbie Tyler . The Sermon That Divided America . . 12 June 2023 . 21 May 2022.
2. Book: Mangum . Todd . Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture: Historical, Biblical, and Theoretical Perspectives . 2011 . . 55 . 12 June 2023 . The Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy, the Inerrancy of Scripture, and the Development of American Dispensationalism.
3. Book: Bigalke . Ron J. . The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature, Volume 2 . 2010 . . 442 . 12 June 2023 . John Gresham Machen.
4. Book: Fraser . Liam Jerrold . Atheism, Fundamentalism and the Protestant Reformation: Uncovering the Secret Sympathy . 2018 . . 141 . 12 June 2023.
5. Book: Machen . J. Gresham . J. Gresham Machen . Christianity and Liberalism . 1923 . 7 . 12 June 2023.
6. Web site: Keller . Tim . Tim Keller (pastor) . Tim Keller on the Decline and Renewal of the American Church . . 12 June 2023.
7. Book: Ungureanu . James C. . Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of Conflict . 2019 . . 277 . 12 June 2023.
8. Web site: Murray . Iain . Iain Murray (author) . How Scotland Lost Its Hold of the Bible . . 12 June 2023.
9. Web site: Christianity and Liberalism . . 12 June 2023.