Liberal Christianity

“In the middle of the twentieth century, Christian theologian H. Richard Niebuhr, himself something of a theological liberal (at least according to Dorrien), leveled the harshest criticism of liberal Protestantism. Niebur’s criticism applies to all liberal thinkers discussed in this book. According to him, liberal Christianity believes ‘a God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.’”

-Against Liberal Theology, Roger E. Olson, page 96

“Today progressive Christianity is often just a halfway house from which people emerge into full blown liberal theology in one of its varieties.” (which is why Borg is their guide)

Olson summing up liberal theology, “Typically, it does not really explain anything except God-consciousness or theocentric piety or how to be a Christian without believing any of the traditional doctrines of the historical, biblical, orthodox churches.”

And quoting the liberal theologian Van Harvey, “Christianity became merely a re-presentation of modern self-understanding.”