Christianity & Liberalism: Legacy Edition

“I have read Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen multiple times for multiple reasons. Each time has been a blessing for my life and ministry. As I now read this anniversary edition I am astonished at how relevant it is for the challenges facing the evangelical and reformed church today. It is only enhanced through the insightful essays provided by the faculty of Westminster Seminary. You must read it and read all of it!”

“Machen's Christianity and Liberalism is as relevant today as it was almost a hundred years ago when he wrote, powerfully defining true and biblical Christianity. This volume is especially valuable as his spiritual heirs at Westminster relate Machen's thought to the church today.”

“J. Gresham Machen played a major role in challenging Christians not to withdraw from the culture but to have a Kingdom perspective. Not only did Machen understand the issues of the 1920’s America culture, but he wrote in such a manner that he speaks to us almost 100 years later in a contemporary tone. This book is for Christians, and especially for Christian leaders, to see how Machen’s perspective helps our understanding of similar issues today. I think the original copyright could just as well read 2019 instead of 1923. How he dealt with the strategic issues of his day gives us a model to enable us to do the same today. Christianity and Liberalism is a clear guide book for us.”

“I first encountered J. Gresham Machen's work as an undergraduate student grappling with modern challenges to the Christian faith. I found in him a mind passionate for the truth and a heart aflame with the gospel.”

“Someone said recently that we need 'a new Machen' to speak insightfully to present–day theological confusions. That would be great. But, thank the Lord, the old Machen does continue to teach us.”

“it would be well for Christ's body not to marginalize Machen as a nostalgic symbol. His battle for Christian truth uncovers the folly of those growing increasingly flexible toward broadening the doors of biblical orthodoxy.”

“In J. Gresham Machen, God gave the church an inimitable champion of biblical orthodoxy and gospel clarity...Machen is one of American evangelicalism's most important 20th–century thinkers.”

“J. Gresham Machen was a man of his times, enmeshed in protracted and penetrating conflict over the triumphant liberalism of his day. He was also a man who transcended his times, because he undertook, with rare learning and clear–sighted understanding, the defense of the faith 'once for all entrusted to God's holy people' (Jude 3). His Christianity and Liberalism, for instance, written almost a century ago, still sounds amazingly prophetic...Machen is always worth reading. ”

“J. Gresham Machen was one of the best thinkers and writers among Reformed theologians before his untimely death on New Year's Day of 1937....Machen's writing is always crisp and clear, without any compromise of cogent argument....When Machen finishes dealing with an unbelieving argument, I always feel that there is nothing more to be said on the unbelieving side.”

“Machen is clearly a spiritual gentleman, a worthy scholar, and a tender shepherd....Machen may well have no peer when it comes to clear, direct, and stirring expositional and applicational writing. Reader, prepare your mind and heart for a bracing read.”

“J. Gresham Machen was one of the most prescient and courageous Christian theologians of the early 20th century. During his life, Machen was a clear and consistent voice for Christian orthodoxy and evangelical truth in the face of liberalism...Machen's works are as relevant now as they were when they were first written.”

“That Christianity and Liberalism did emerge as a kind of Christian classic, and that it continues to impact the thinking of Christian people after a century of turbulent change, is often attributed to the author’s prescience. He saw the road that liberalism was taking and was able to describe the movement so incisively that his book is still relevant almost a century later. ”

“I cannot count the number of times I have read J. G. Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Each time something fresh jumps off the page. In its profound simplicity, it is timeless. Machen’s tone [is] always gracious, never bitter. While there is plenty of polemic, he never seems to belittle his opponents. Disagreement is not dislike. We can learn that, and so much else, from J. Gresham Machen.”