{"id":1925,"date":"2011-08-01T23:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/08\/01\/machenchristianity-and-liberalism\/"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T07:19:04","slug":"machenchristianity-and-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/08\/01\/machenchristianity-and-liberalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Machen&ndash;Christianity and Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever read this classic? I\u2019ve heard about it all my ministry life, from the days of training at BJU til now, but, incredible as it may seem, never read the book.<\/p>\n<p>I found a copy of the text online and converted it to the Kindle. I\u2019m about half way through. I\u2019m hoping to do some blogging about the ideas in it sometime soon (when life slows down\u2026 Hah!). In the meantime, I\u2019d like to urge you to read it if you have never done so.<\/p>\n<p>It is available online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblebelievers.com\/machen\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There is a Kindle version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Christianity-and-Liberalism-ebook\/dp\/B0051RGGIC\/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;m=AZC9TZ4UC9CFC&amp;qid=1312269109&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, it\u2019s 1.99 for that version. I found a free one somewhere, but it was poorly scanned, so I formatted my own from the website I linked to first.<\/p>\n<p>One last item: Tim Challies just completed a group reading of <em>Christianity and Liberalism<\/em>. The blog series begins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/reading-classics-together\/rct-christianity-liberalism\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, with links to each of the subsequent blogs at the bottom of the article. Challies is an interesting guy. He and some of his readers might be getting Machen\u2019s point a bit, but most of them don\u2019t seem to realize that if you are going to oppose liberalism as aggressively as Machen did, you will either be forced out as Machen was or you will realize you have to come out. You can\u2019t take Machen\u2019s stand and remain in fellowship with apostasy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"don_sig2\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/don_sig2.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever read this classic? I\u2019ve heard about it all my ministry life, from the days of training at BJU til now, but, incredible as it may seem, never read the book. I found a copy of the text online and converted it to the Kindle. I\u2019m about half way through. I\u2019m hoping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[71,139],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-v3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}