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Inside the Christianity, the postmodernism there is permeado across the emergent movement, which has been characterized for insisting in the relativity of the truth, with which he has wanted, by means of his leaders to rethink the doctrines that have been supported by the Christianity for centuries.

Which doctrines? Very well, men as Doug Pagitt have said publicly that it is necessary to re-define the doctrine of the Trinidad; Rob Bell, has fought to reject the authority of the Bible; Brian McLaren, who has been the booster of the inclusivismo in the American church.

McLaren and his followers are the liberals of the beginning of the XXth century against which Machen fought. These postmodernistas/emergentes represent the same men's doctrines as Fosdick and Finney at the beginning of last century.

This book arose from a speech that Machen presented to the Elders of the Presbytery Chester and that then Princeton Theological Review published in (vol. xx, 1922) on November 3, 1921, and to which it titled, “Liberalism or Christianity” (Liberalism or Christianity). From this speech it turned out to be a more complex and deep treatment, which brought with it the publication of the book. In him, the author writes,

“In the sphere of the religion, particularly, the present time is a conflict time; the big redeeming religion that has been known for ages how Christianity is battling against a type of completely different belief, which is more destructive than the Christian faith because traditional Christian uses terminology. This not redeeming modern religion is called “a modernism“ o “liberalism“ … the root of the movement is one: naturalism.”

The Machen criticism against the liberalism is that it is not a Christianity, but especially he is not a scientist. To demonstrate the errors of the liberalism, the author describes the differences that exist between the Christianity and the first one, with regard to six aspects: Doctrine, God and the Man, the Bible, Christ, Salvation and the Church. Machen analyzes what the Christianity has believed across 1900 years of history, and compares it with the new liberal propositions, who were teaching that the doctrine was not important, but the important thing for the Christian was to imitate Christ. “Out with the theology!” the liberals shout.

         Pero Machen asks: how to follow Christ if we reject the doctrine? Doctrine is an education, and what the Christianity teaches is based on a historical fact. This historical fact is what we must understand. If we do not understand this historical fact we cannot be called Christians, since Christ's follower must understand his educations and what it came to do to the ground. The liberals were saying that the Christianity is a life style, but Machen demonstrates that for the primitive church and the first Christians, it was a life style based on a message.

With regard to God, Machen shows the liberal education. These were teaching that God could only be met across Christ, with this rejecting the special revelation as the way to appear to God. The liberalism of the XXth century believed that God was the universal Father of the humanity. It has no enemies. It was pantheistic, that is to say, it was teaching that God was quite. There was no difference between God and your creation. All this does of the liberalism any thing less Christianity.

        With regard to the Bible, Machen shows us what the liberals believed. These, says the author, were pushing the doctrine of the inspiration back. The Bible was only a set of educations that had been inherited from generation to generation, without the intervention of the Holy Spirit. Other liberals, were saying that they were pushing the Bible back, but that only they were following the sayings and Christ's educations. All this, says the author, is contradictory and it takes a person to the skepticism and not to the Christianity.

         In case of Christ, Machen shows how for the liberals what the Christian had to do was to follow the lead of Christ. But, in the Christianity, since Machen makes it clear, the important thing the redemption achieved by Christ was, being the object of our faith. It was not only to continue your example, but to put our faith in Him to be redeemed. “Christ is over us,” the liberals say, “but if he was or not a sinner it has no importance.” East is an example provided by the author, in which we see the heresy of the liberalism, and to what it can come if it is not resisted. It will continue

(taken of sujetosalaroca.org)