Christianity and Liberalism by J. Greshman Machen Introduction Though Machen's first sentence says "this book is not to decide the religious issue of the present day, but merely to present the issue as sharply and clearly as possible" I feel that his opinion is made clear. If I were to summarize his thesis it would be that Christianity was not only being watered down but was becoming an entirely new religion as society wrestled with the question of if religion and science can co-exist. From his view it seemed that liberalism was steadily tearing away the primary doctrines of Christianity from the church. I found it interesting how Machen described this slow fade of doctrine. He described it as a slow retreat of the church into their city for the sake of peace only to find that the pursuit of the enemy follows them there. The church was seeking to appease those who came after it with science and liberalism as their weapons but ...