The Rise of Paganism

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In Christianity and liberalism, Rosaria Machin identifies a turn to paganism in 1923. She says the modern world has not even begun to equal Saint Greece's achievements. Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian idealm is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature,. whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

What does it mean to be a human being created in the image of God? In the brave new world of today, that’s a loaded question. Modern culture in the West has affirmed a radical reinvention of the self that was barely imaginable when J. Gresham Machen wrote Christianity & Liberalism in 1923. Not only is LGBTQ ideology inescapable—in schools, books, movies, fashion, sports, even beer and car commercials. It has become a dogma of the mainstream.

And yet, as radical as this seems, there are prescient notes throughout Machen’s 100 year old book, words from his time that can help us make sense of our own. Principles that help us to take every thought captive, even in a world that insists on allegiance to being everything we want to be, whenever we want it, on demand. . .

Politics. Technology. Identity. Power. Science. Everything seems to be changing. So why not faith?

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