Dipping again into my Church History notes, I come to a section headed “History of Neo-Evangelicalism & the Ecumenical Movement”
The section starts with this:
Satan’s method is to counterfeit the truth, not contend with it. Therefore he produces deceptive bodies.
- Neo-Orthodoxy – deception in theology in the 1920s
- Neo-Evangelicalism – deception in practice in the 1950s
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It is interesting to consider these two notes that go with the quotation/note I made under the title to the lecture. Liberalism/Modernism was, if I may call it, honest unbelief. While it propagated many lies, it propagated honest lies. Out and out lies. Bald-faced lies. In my next note in the church history series, I’ll cover it more specifically.
But liberalism (now sometimes called ‘classic liberalism’) became much less of a thread to Bible-believing Christianity than these two subsequent challenges. These two were greater deceptions.
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