Christianity & Liberalism: Introduction

<ol><li><strong>Introduction </strong></li><ol><li><strong>Popular Work</strong></li><li><strong>Basic Christianity </strong></li></ol><li><strong>Christianity and Liberalism</strong></li><ol><li><strong>Apology for the Book </strong></li><ol><li>Purpose</li><ol><li>The most important word in the title</li><li>“Condition of Low Visibility”</li></ol><li>Objections</li><ol><li>Clear contrasts sounds mean, impious</li><li>Impact on church statistics </li><li>Light is important to health</li></ol><li>Worthy Pursuit</li></ol><li><strong>Liberalism is not a Subset of Christianity</strong></li><ol><li>Thesis: <em>the great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology. This modern non-redemptive religion is called &quot;modernism&quot; or “liberalism.&quot;</em></li><ol><li>Christianity and <em>Modernism</em></li><li>(Actual) Liberalism is a good thing</li></ol><li>Origin of Liberalism (Modernism) </li><ol><li>Naturalism</li><li>Changing Society</li><li>Can Christianity endure Modern Snobbery?</li></ol></ol><li><strong>Goal of Liberalism (Modernism)</strong></li><ol><li>Save Christianity </li><ol><li>What is the relationship between science, modern culture and Christianity?</li><li>Science as the sole arbiter of truth</li><ol><li>Science vs. Scientism</li><li>Lingering impact of Scientism in 2020s</li></ol><li>Separate <em>reason, science</em> from faith?</li></ol><li>Compromise with Modernism is Futile</li><ol><li>Christianity  cannot be separated from Science!</li><li>Compromise cannot be confined; capitulation is inevitable </li></ol><li>Rebuke of Modernism</li><ol><li>Christianity is historically defensible</li><li>Liberal religion is is not Christianity </li><li>Defending Christianity is hard</li><ol><li>The Reproach of the Cross; glory or cross?</li><li>What is worth doing? “<em>the things that are sometimes thought to be hardest to defend are also the things that are most worth defending. In maintaining that liberalism in the modern Church represents a return to an unchristian and sub-Christian form of the religious life, we are particularly anxious not to be misunderstood</em>”</li></ol></ol></ol><li><strong>True Freedom vs. Modernism</strong></li><ol><li>Modernism is the Enemy of (true Liberalism)</li><ol><li>The cost of “progress” and “advancement”</li><li>Individual Flourishing?</li><li>Are the Old Paths inferior or just harder?</li></ol><li>Tyranny of Majority </li><li>Warning Re: Government Schools</li><li>Soul-Crushing Modernism </li></ol></ol><li><strong> Conclusion</strong>: let the Church be the Church and fulfill her spiritual mission</li></ol>