Christianity Sparknotes

A Summary of the Book This time was the second time to read Christianity & Liberalism. While reading the book, this reviewer could realize that how he partially understood the book. In the first reading, last year, one of impressions of the book was the supernatural is foundational in Christianity. Although this impression is right, the message of the book is broader than he thought. The message was not simply about the necessity of the supernatural in Christianity, but about Christianity itself as a historical religion and its truth based on the Word of God. The book was known as a collection of various writing of the author. Nevertheless, the logical structure of the book proves how the author deeply considered Liberalism as a different

They objected one doctrinal system of Christianity. All doctrines including heresies have equal value to them. The relationship, however, between history and doctrine is significant to understand Christianity as the redemptive religion. Differ from what the modern liberals claimed, the Gospel is composed of history and doctrine, and “the narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine” (pg. 25). ‘Jesus died on the cross’ is history, and ‘Jesus died on the cross for our sins’ is

When the author described his argument, he only quoted verses in the Bible as the evidence of the argument. This method of argument was sufficient for readers to verify the authority of the Scripture. The author consequently demonstrated that the modern liberalism is a different religion with Christianity. The weakness of the book, on the other hand, might be that the author could not give the question of “sin of schism” in the Presbyterian Church. It could be an unfair critic of the book because the sin of schism happened after Machen passed away as the Orthodox Presbyterian Church separated with fundamentalists in 1937, and the purpose of the book is not about division in the Presbyterian Church. The author, however, in the book certainly showed that the time of separation was coming in his church, and he eventually was at the first General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in