Christianity And Liberalism (and Conservatism) Ryan Mcilhenny, Ph.d. At The

Christianity and Liberalism (and Conservatism) Ryan McIlhenny, Ph.D. At the height of the fundamentalist controversy in the 1920s, New Testament scholar J. Gresham Machen argued in his best-selling Christianity and Liberalism that “the Christian movement at its inception was not just a way of life in the modern sense, but a way of life founded upon a message…upon an account of facts…upon doctrine.” Machen addressed the habits of many so-called Christians who worked to undermine the central tenets of the Christian faith. Christianity without the doctrines of the gospel is no Christianity at all, he believed. Yet this did not apply solely to liberals. As a trenchant critique of cultural evangelicalism, revealing its relevance for the contemporary Christian, Machen’s Christian and Liberalism also speaks to conservative evangelicals who have substituted moral living for confessional doctrine. Dr. Ryan McIlhenny of Providence Christian College will be leading a Sunday school discussion about the continuing relevance of such a work for the church today.