Liberalism

A mayor’s backlash against a basic statement of Evangelical Christian belief signals an ominous turn in the culture wars. National Review

Roger Olson: If fundamentalism tends to be rigid, dogmatic, contrarian, separatist, liberal Christianity tends to be shallow, insipid, plastic, and fuzzy.

Preaching & Preachers: Dead Germans. They are the subject of a lecture I give every spring in my church history classes: a brief overview of German theologians from the 19th and early-20th centuries … But, in the midst of the chaos and carnage, are there lessons that we can learn from the German liberal theologians and higher critics, even if it is almost entirely from their negative example?

Albert Mohler: Andy Stanley is no Friedrich Schleiermacher, but the path he charts for the church is a road to abject disaster.

Proclaim & Defend: What are we to make of the moderates who affirm (they claim) the fundamental doctrines of the faith but hinder and ultimately oppose the efforts of Fundamentalists to call men to accountability to those doctrines? The problem has not gone away with the end of the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy.

Dr. Michael Brown: In an August 12th op-ed piece for the New York Times entitled “Is God Transgender?”, Rabbi Mark Sameth claims that “the Hebrew Bible, when read in its original language, offers “a highly elastic view of gender” and that, “Counter to everything we grew up believing, the God of Israel … was understood by its earliest worshipers to be a dual-gendered deity.” Are there any truths to these claims?

“The centuries-long debate between conservatives and progressives about governance, argues Michael Munger, is essentially a disagreement about a simple concept: whether the State is a unicorn.”

“Diversity. Tolerance. Open-mindedness. These values have been the benchmarks of American liberalism, until recently.”

HT: Acton Institute

Bolz-Weber’s liberal, foulmouthed articulation of Christianity speaks to fed-up believers