The Parallels Between Progressive Christianity and Liberalism

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Pastor Harry Reader wrote an article titled Christianity and Progressivism. In it, Reader argued that progressive Christianity at its core is liberal Christianity 2.0. I ask Peter if he too recognized parallels between progressive Christianity and liberalism. "I think progressivism is constantly the desire to say, can't we just get along with everybody? And the answer ought to be, as much as lies within me, I will live at peace with all men"

Losing is never fun. And it’s even less fun when the New York Times is paying attention. But by 1929 that’s what had happened. J. Gresham Machen had lost the fight against liberalism at Princeton seminary. Even after reading Machen’s warning in Christianity and Liberalism, the Presbyterian church voted to reorganize Princeton to allow liberal theology on faculty.

That would’ve been the perfect time to pack it in. But for Machen the fight had never been about Princeton. True Christian doctrine could never belong to a single organization, no matter how influential. So Machen did what any God fearing independently wealthy bachelor would do. He quit, poached Princeton’s best faculty, and started his own seminary.

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

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