Our friends at the Reformed Forum are discussing the classic book, Christianity and Liberalism, by J. Gresham Machen, which was published 100 years ago this year. The book stands out for its clear and concise way of comparing and contrasting the historic Christian faith with the liberal theology that arose in Germany in the late 1800s and made its way to our…
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Our friends at the Reformed Forum are reviewing the very important book, Christianity and Liberalism, written by J. Gresham Machen. In this podcast Camden Bucey, Danny Olinger, and Machen scholar, D.G. Hart, discuss chapter two of this work. Below is the introduction to the podcast as posted by the Reformed Forum: This is the 100th anniversary of the publication of J. Gresham…
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the classic book, Christianity and Liberalism, published in 1923. The book was written by J. Gresham Machen, a professor of New Testament and Greek at Princeton Theological Seminary. The book was written to counter the effects of “modernist” interpretation of Christianity. In so doing he argued persuasively that modernism was not in line with the…
Shane Rosenthal, former producer and host of the White Horse Inn podcast, has published a thoughtful article about megachurches. He observes that the first megachurch was started 100 years ago in Los Angeles by Sister Aimee Semple McPherson. Consider that the marks that made her church successful are largely the same marks that make successful megachurches today. Question: Are they the same…
As a young Christian I was starved for a historical grounding of our faith. After college I read J.I. Packer’s book, Knowing God, with a group of singles from my church. Somewhere in there the Westminster Confession of Faith was mentioned and a seed was planted in my mind. Years later, while on staff of Cru, we found ourselves living in the…