Every quotation from J. Gresham Machen that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →
In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.
“The chief modern rival of Christianity is ‘liberalism.’”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (1923), ch. 2, public domain.public domain
In the gameMachen names it plainly, and the quotation marks are deliberate — the thing is not really liberal, and it is not really an -ism, but it is unmistakably the rival, and it is inside the building.
Learned byChristianity and Liberalism (Lv 44)
“…liberalism is altogether in the imperative mood, while Christianity begins with a triumphant indicative; liberalism appeals to man’s will, while Christianity announces, first, a gracious act of God.”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (1923), ch. 3, public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain
In the gameThe difference located in one grammatical fact. Liberalism tells you what to do; Christianity tells you first what God has done. A religion of the imperative and a religion of the indicative are not the same religion in two moods.
Learned byChristianity and Liberalism (Lv 48)
A faith that is all "you ought" and a faith that begins "God has" are not one religion in two moods. The Affirmation keeps the second’s vocabulary and runs on the first’s engine.
“…Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.”
J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (1923), ch. 1, public domain. (trimmed quote)public domain
In the gameMachen’s thesis, and it is a claim about categories rather than a charge of heresy. Liberalism keeps the vocabulary of Christianity and means something else by all of it, which makes it more corrosive than open unbelief.
Learned byChristianity and Liberalism (Lv 52)
Machen’s answer is not that a doctrine was denied — nothing was. It is that two men can say "I believe in the resurrection" for forty years, mean a body and mean a memory, and never be in the same religion. The shared words hide the split; they do not heal it.
Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.
“For in him we live, and move, and have our being. As some of your own poets have said.”
Acts 17:28 (WEB) — Paul at the Areopagus, quoting the Athenians’ own poets back to them.
In the gamePick the part of the opponent’s case that is true and affirm it. That point can no longer be used against you, and the opponent’s Defend falls sharply. It deals no damage. Affirm something false and you have only agreed with an error.
Learned byChristianity and Liberalism (Lv 25)
J. Gresham Machen against everyone else in the game.
