Tim Keller - Evangelism and Church Planting in Postmodern Cities

I enjoyed Keller’s Preaching to the Heart series (at the Ockenga Institute of Gordon-Conwell, see previous post) so much that I had to get this one as well…and so far it’s been a great series.

Machen - the difference between the historic creeds and (post?) modern theologizing

From his review of Harry Emerson Fosdick’s book Modern Use of the Bible:

The greatest difference between the doctrine which our author thinks that modern Liberalism must produce and the great creeds of the church is not that the historic creeds differ from the new doctrine in this detail or that, and it is not even that they differ from the new doctrine in all details. But the real difference is that the authors or compilers of the historic creeds meant their creeds to be true, whereas the authors of these proposed Modernist compendia of belief do not believe their own assertions to be true but only believe them to be useful, as symbolic expressions of a really ineffable experience. But if theologizing is no more than that, we venture to think it is the most useless waste of time in which an able-bodied man could possibly engage. Very different were the great creeds of the church, which were efforts to set forth what was not merely useful but also true (Selected Shorter Writings, p. 462).