WTS BOOKS SALE:
CHRISTIANITY & LIBERALISM (100TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION), by J. Gresham Machen
How many books do you know that are in their 100th anniversary and still relevant today? J. Gresham Machen has one of those books! Christianity & Liberalism is on sale today for 40% off at WTS Books. The sale is valid through August 17, 2026.
Endorsements
“Machen’s classic, Christianity & Liberalism, is in many ways needed more now than when it was penned a century ago. In this long-treasured and much-needed work, he applied the keen edge of the truth to theological liberalism to clarify that it is not a more open-minded expression of Christianity but a different religion altogether. Therefore, the battle against liberalism is not really a fight for ‘conservativism,’ but for Christianity itself. If you’ve never read this book, get it and read it now; if you have read it, read it again!”
Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
“100 years ago, this book first appeared. In it, the New Testament professor and Presbyterian minister J. Gresham Machen argued that the ‘liberal Christianity’ of his day was, in fact, not a kind of Christianity, but an entirely different religion. That’s the first two chapters. In the remainder of the book, he traces out the differences between these two competing religions, including their differing views of the Bible, Jesus Christ, Salvation, and the Church. Read it, and Machen might convince you of the important differences that are still confusing many today.”
Mark Dever, Pastor, Capitol Hill Baptist Church
“I first read Machen’s Christianity & Liberalism in my early 20s, about 40 years ago. It crystallized convictions that had been forming in me in my university years in the midst of the theological tumult of those days (the late 1970s and early 1980s were a time in which the doctrine of Scripture was a focal point of debate in historic Protestant colleges, universities, seminaries, and graduate schools, as well as denominations). Re-reading it closely this year, for the first time in four decades, I am struck by its continued importance. It is truly seminal. For instance, I think that I find in a few pages of Machen’s Introduction the core idea of David Wells’ whole No Place for Truth project stated in a few sentences, but 70 years in advance. It is my hope that this new edition will encourage the younger generation of confessional Reformed Protestants to hold fast to historic, Bible-believing, theologically orthodox Christianity, and to recognize and resist the appropriation of theological liberalism in evangelical circles.”
Ligon Duncan, Chancellor and CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary
“Few books are read a century after they were written and even fewer of those are as relevant in the present as when they were first published; J. Gresham Machen’s Christianity & Liberalism is just such a book. Machen’s classic supersedes all others in prophetically describing the contours of and differences between Christianity and its counterfeit, liberal Christianity. Christianity & Liberalism is one of the most important religious works of the twentieth century. Many twenty-first century readers will want to engage its lucid arguments.”
George Marsden, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
“I read this book for the first time 23 years ago as a senior in college when I was a four-year-old Christian. Machen’s words in his book impacted me in more ways than I could express then as a new believer, and they continue to impact me now as a New Testament scholar of 15 years in my 26th year of following Christ. As others have pointed out, Machen’s point in the book is clear: Biblical orthodoxy is Christianity, not Protestant liberalism! The latter, says Machen, is a ‘modern non-redemptive religion.’ Machen grounded his argument for Orthodox Christianity in scripture (God’s inspired, inerrant, infallible, and authoritative word). . . Machen’s work is more important and even more relevant today than it was 100 years ago as one denomination after another continues to move further and further away from what Machen describes as historic, Orthodox, and biblical Christiantiy. With this anniversary edition of this classic book, Machen’s labor will continue to produce gospel fruit for many more years to come until Jesus returns, [helping] the next generation of Christians read, teach, and apply afresh his case for historic, Orthodox, and biblical Christianity.”
Jarvis J. Williams, Associate Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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CHRISTIANITY & LIBERALISM (100TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION), by J. Gresham Machen (WTS)