The Ten Commandments of Progressive Christianity
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Each of these new "commandments" is partly true and may sound good until you look closely. For liberal Christianity never goes away, it just gets repackaged. If the church is going to hold fast to "the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 3), we must, in every era, be able to distinguish the true faith from the false.
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This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader as part of a quick takes post to catch up–emphasizing pithiness, not thoroughness.
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There's part of this that's a tribute to Machen and Christianity & Liberalism, while being an update to it, too. To see how Liberalism is alive and well (running under the moniker of “Progressive” now), he uses two contemporary works to respond to. He stresses repeatedly that the tenents taught in these books aren't wholesale departures from the faith. However, these half-truths are so misleading they amount to the same. Being half-truths, they're all the more dangerous and will easily fool some.
The analysis and critique are sharp, spot-on, and easy to read. Well worth your time.
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I know that the point of this imprint is “quick,” but this was just too brief to be really valuable. I'd have liked some more depth, for Kruger to use more than just the two works he's critiquing, that sort of thing. It was an appetizer—and it turns out that after a couple of bites, I wanted a meal.
