I think Dr. Machen really put his finger on something. He said those who want to change our church are not going out publicly and saying these are the changes we espouse. What do you think of them?

But they were working in the background. They were working behind

the scenes. They were working in ways that most of the laity didn't observe it in the life of the

church. And Dr. Meachin thought there was a dishonesty about that. The 20th century in many respects contains the best and worst of human history and a

significant figure in the life of the church in the 20th century was Jay Gresham

Machen and he's the man that you'll learn about today.

Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind as we conclude a week dipping our toes into

church history as each day we've looked at one moment, man or

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And the easiest way for you to get that is online. for your looking at J. Gresham Machen in light of last year being the 100th anniversary of his classic book, Christianity and liberalism.

Well today we'll consider who was Machen and what was happening before and after the release of that

watershed book. Here's Dr Godfrey.

We've been looking at the growing divide in American Protestantism in what had been a united

evangelical Protestant front through much of the 19th century watching how Protestantism is polarizing into fundamentalist and modernist wings,

still in the early 20th century, largely united in the same denominations, but increasingly finding life together difficult and traumatic.

And we've illustrated up to this point this polarization in terms of Presbyterian experience, and I want to go on doing that by looking

with you at the experience of Jay Gressam-Machin. Mechin is important on several fronts.

He illustrates something of a character and role of Presbyterianism in America, but more importantly,

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