![]() The Christian message has come to us through the Bible. But the divergence concerns not only the presuppositions of the message, but also the message itself. ![]() The liberal doctrine of God and the liberal doctrine of man are both diametrically opposite to the Christian view. Modern liberalism, it has been observed so far, has lost sight of the two great presuppositions of the Christian message-the living God, and the fact of sin. In large measure, that controversy still defines America’s religious world and influences our politics. ![]() The writings of Machen, Fosdick, and Dixon included in this collection were part of the modernist-fundamentalist controversy of the first decades of the twentieth century. Writing several decades after Palmer, however, in a world of increased secularism and scientific influence (see documents 14 and 16), Machen felt the need to argue for the authority of the Bible, an authority Palmer could take for granted. In noting that nature was part of God’s revelation, Machen echoes a traditional view, which we have encountered in detail in Palmer, “Baconianism and the Bible”(see document 11). Harry Emerson Fosdick, see document 19), who he argued placed human experience at the center of religion. He contrasted this view with the view of religious liberals (e.g. In chapter four of Christianity and Liberalism (printed here almost in its entirety), Machen asserted that the Bible as both God’s revelation and as inerrant was essential to Christianity. ![]() Gresham Machen (1881–1937) was the last of a long line of Presbyterian theologians at Princeton who thought of themselves as upholding the traditional teachings of the denomination. ![]()
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