The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity Kruger Michael J.
The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity Kruger Michael J. A cautionary look at ten dangerously appealing half-truths.In 1923, J. The book was a response to the rise of liberalism in the…
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The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity Kruger Michael J.
A cautionary look at ten dangerously appealing half-truths.In 1923, J. The book was a response to the rise of liberalism in the mainline denominations of his own day. Gresham Machen, then a professor at Princeton Seminary, wrote his classic text, Christianity and Liberalism.
Put simply, liberal Christianity is not Christianity.What is remarkable about Machen's book is how prescient it was. Machen argued that the liberal understanding of Christianity was, in fact, not just a variant version of the faith, nor did it represent simply a different denominational perspective, but was an entirely different religion. His description of liberal Christianity--a moralistic, therapeutic version of the faith that values questions over answers and being "good" over being "right"--is still around today in basically the same form.
For this reason