Christianity and Liberalism
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (1923)
J. Gresham Machen
Courteous, exact, and unwilling to call a disagreement small to keep a room quiet.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 210
- Stat total
- 358
Base stats
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Cited for this book
Machen wrote it in 1923, lost the fight over the seminary in 1929, left to found Westminster, and was tried and defrocked in 1935 for starting an independent mission board. The book’s argument is narrow and it holds: liberalism is not a slack or reduced Christianity, it is a distinct religion using the same words, and the honest thing — kinder in the end than the pretense of unity — is to say so and let each side be what it is.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 44 | The Chief Modern Rival | History | Argument | 78 | 100% | 15 |
| 46 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 48 | Imperative and Indicative | Soteriology | Argument | 90 | 100% | 10 |
| 52 | A Different Religion | Presupposition | Argument | 96 | 100% | 10 |