[HarleyD]

Excerpts allowed only but this is an excellent historical view of Machen and his fight against modernism.

From the article:

What he didn’t like was

1. the absence of historical perspective;

2.the lack of appreciation of scholarship;

3.the substitution of brief, skeletal creeds for the historic confessions;

4.the lack of concern with precise formulation of Christian doctrine;

5.the pietistic, perfectionist tendencies (for example, hang ups with smoking,20 etc.);

6.one-sided other-worldliness (that is, a lack of effort to transform culture); and

7.a penchant for futuristic chiliasm (or: pre-millenialism).

[Alex Murphy]

What he didn’t like was
1. the absence of historical perspective;
2.the lack of appreciation of scholarship;
3.the substitution of brief, skeletal creeds for the historic confessions;
4.the lack of concern with precise formulation of Christian doctrine;
5.the pietistic, perfectionist tendencies (for example, hang ups with smoking, etc.);
6.one-sided other-worldliness (that is, a lack of effort to transform culture); and
7.a penchant for futuristic chiliasm (or: pre-millenialism).

Ping to read later. Thanks for posting, Harley!

[Charles Henrickson]

Machen ping.

[Gamecock]

“I’m so thankful for [the] active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.”

Mortal man has not uttered finer last words.

[Lee N. Field]

downloading the audio now.

I should dig out my copy of Christianity & Liberalism for a re-read, in the wake of reading Ross Douthat's Bad Religion.