A review by fdes_817
Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen

2.0

A very reactionary piece against Protestant Liberalism. Protestant Liberalism has a lot to be brought to task for, but Machen presents an equally fallow conservatism. While many liberals were too quick and radical with their conclusions regarding scripture, they did produce significant challenges to how the church should understand scripture. Machen digs his heels in and produces an argument that lacks muster in our current era. Furthermore, he shares many presuppositions with his liberal counterparts that I think bog down his argument, disallowing him from truly articulating traditional faith. Also, though sadly this is not uncommon from writers of his era, his thinking privileges "Anglo-Saxons" and certainly shows racial insensitivity.