Theological liberalism has no gonads. It is impotent. Ah, but it has seemed so influential! It’s taken over much of the western church. Has it not? No. The perceived influence of theological liberalism is only the encroaching dominion of unbelief – unbelief that grows like strep in a warm petri dish when the burning coals and solid ice of orthodoxy are nowhere to be found.
When an Episcopal Priest can stand up on Easter morning and declare to the congregation that Jesus did not actually, historically, bodily, rise from the dead (happened this year at a church in Nashville) – that is not the triumph of liberty, non-violence, and the love of Christ. It is the triumph dance of the enemy, declaring as shrilly as he can that God is dead. Perhaps if he shouts it a little louder, it will drown out the hum of the approaching eschaton.
Satan worked in the hearts of men to move the mob to murder Christ. Now, he must work to keep him murdered. The mob must have won. They must have killed him so well that He really stayed in the ground, despite whatever his crazy followers said afterwards. But they can talk all they want. God is liberated from the grave.