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Title: Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen ISBN: 0-8028-1121-3 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: December, 1923 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: 20th Century Prophet
Comment: If you are looking for a book to recommend for someone searching to make sense out of the malaise of the modern (or, post-modern) church, Machen's book is an excellent choice. As was pointed out in other reviews, Christian liberalism is not Christian at all, but is rather a non-Christian religion with Christian tags. Specifically, he highlights liberal beliefs regarding the major doctrines related to God, man, Christ, salvation, and the church. He then refutes these by demonstrating the orthodox Biblical view on each.
For those confused on the nature of faith and salvation, Machen, in chapter VI, makes one of the clearest presentations I have read anywhere. That alone is worth the purchase.
This book is very readable and a 20th century classic on the orthodox Protestant faith. Any basic library should stock it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Machen's fight is our fight
Comment: J. Gresham Machen led the internal Presbyterian struggle against the debilitating effects of the downgrade controversy, evolution and destructive higher criticism. He stood strongly for the inerrant truth of scripture and the unique deity of Jesus Christ and His role as savior. The end result was his expulsion from the Presbyterian Chruch and its seminary at Princeton.
You must understand where he was coming from when you read this book. He was not a fundamentalist (as, for instance, I am) but a warrior of Calvin's Reformed Faith. In terms of Biblical authority, theology and salvation - we are in agreement. So I enjoy the fact of his stand as a believer in Jesus Christ and in God's Word.
The primary point of this book - which is a classic of Christian scholarship - is that liberal Christianity isn't Christianity at all - but something else; some other religion that has nothing to do with God, Jesus or the Bible. He makes his point - which ought to be intuitively obvious - with skill and panache by putting his finger directly on the issues that liberals and those who believe the Bible can NOT agree on: 1. who was Jesus?; 2. what does he do for us?; 3. what did he do at Calvary and after?; 4. what is our final authority?
Once he pins down these issues and analyzes them he draws the dividing line between Christianity and liberalism cleanly and no one who has read this book has the slightest excuse for confusing the two.
Kelly Whiting
Rating: 5
Summary: A trumpet of no uncertain sound
Comment: After reading this book I did not know whether to write a review or critique Mr. John M K's review of the book-both were equally interesting. Machen's basic thesis, as others have pointed out, is that Liberalism is not another form of Christianity, but a religion separate and distinct from Christianity. Liberals claim that Jesus is the essence of Christianity; Machens then asks them to qualify that statement, which turns out that there Jesus is about as historical, and inspiring, as Tolkien's Gandalf. Now don't get me wrong, I loved LOTR, but if the Christ of faith is divorced from the Christ of Histor, then, pray tell, what is the difference between Gandalf and Jesus? The only answer for Christianity is that there is a transcendent God who has revealed himself historically in His Son Jesus. Machen further delineates this by mandating the Cross and Resurrection as an Historical event.
Mr MK claims that the PCUSA is right and the conservatives are wrong. Well, that is an interesting statement, and I grant him his right to it, but why didn't he prove it? He let me down. He challenged historic Christianity, but did not back up his challenge. He then proceeds to talk about Communism for three lines or more with no particular reason for doing so. In all honesty, I searched his review long and hard for a sentence or even a clause relating to the book at hand; alas, I could find it not.
This book is the line drawn in the sand for Christians. "Separation is the crying need of the hour. The things about which men disagree, those are the ones about which men ought to fight."
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Title: Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America by D.G. Hart ISBN: 0875525636 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray ISBN: 0802811434 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 1984 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Origin of Paul's Religion by Gresham J. Machen, J. Gresham Machen ISBN: 1579108911 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.00 |
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Title: The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton ISBN: 0898704448 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Defense of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til ISBN: 0875524834 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: January, 1980 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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