The Rise and Fall of Christianity and Liberalism

J. Gresham Machin's Christianity and Liberalism was a warning to American Protestants about the dangers of theological modernism. Within the PCUSA, that book met a chilly reception; Presbyterian leaders used various methods to muzzle Machin for 12 years after publication. In hindsight, the controversy was a poignant instance of elites deeming certain views unacceptable and then using institutional levers to suppress those ideas.