The Christian Arsenal

Liberalism & Tolerance

1. ✦Christianity and Liberalism -This book, first published in 1923, is a classic treatment of the age old controversy between Orthodox Christianity and Liberalism. Machen contrasts the errors of liberalism with the basic foundational truths of Biblical Christianity such as: Doctrine, God and man, the Bible, Christ, Salvation, and the Church.
   

1. ✦What’s Wrong with Christian Liberalism and Liberal Views? -hey're in our schools and in our churches! People who profess to be Christian, yet deny the authority of Scripture, and compromise essential doctrines. What is Christian liberalism?
   

1. ✦What is a Liberal -Liberal or liberalism is often associated with a political party but it has been found in the church and today it has become a strong influence on peoples thinking that crosses denominational distinctions.
   

1. ✦Liberalism/Modernism -Attempts to adapt religious ideas to modern culture and modes of thinking.
   

1. ✦Two Rival Religions? -On November 3, 1921, J. Gresham Machen presented an address entitled, “Liberalism or Christianity?” In that famous address, later expanded into the book, Christianity & Liberalism, Machen argued that evangelical Christianity and its liberal rival were, in effect, two very different religions.
   

1. ✦Deconstructing Liberal Tolerance - Liberal tolerance is perhaps the primary challenge to the Christian worldview current in North American popular culture.
   

2. ✦Truth or Tolerance? - If I were to ask you what our culture deemed more valuable, truth or tolerance, what would you say? To emphasize the purpose for the question, consider the following three illustrations.