Thus far, modernism has had a beneficial influence on the city in many respects, but has not changed its appearance.
There is a venerableness attached to the old churches and convents abounding in Lima which makes one hope that the exigencies of modernism may not demand the destruction of these splendid relics of colonial architecture.
In Chile one leaves triumphant modernism and now enters the realm of antiquity and romance, the home of Spanish tradition and old-world stateliness.
Montevideo was founded in 1726, but remained a comparatively unimportant way station until some thirty years ago, when it began to imbibe the modernism of its big rivals in Brazil and Argentina.
True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste.
Indeed, the new event was not very unlike the former: in the 60's Rome's sentence was directed against the Modernism of that period, which called itself liberalism.
Modernism is essentially philosophy, combining modern agnostic-autonomous subjectivism with evolutionism, and applied to the Christian religion, which thereby becomes disfigured beyond recognition.
Modernism are deserving of the respectful consideration of all Christians.
This perusal may become dangerous even for highly educated men, else how could Modernism break so forcefully into the Church?
The measures against Modernism were sharply criticized by many Protestants who, at the same time, laid stress upon the fact that nothing of the sort could happen among themselves.
Thus, Modernism is nothing else but the systematic arrangement of those ideas which we have hitherto met, in various places, as the fundamental principles of modern religious thought opposed to Christianity.
The very danger which Modernism threatened to carry into the Catholic Church has overwhelmed Protestant theology: the metaphysical ideas of a modern philosophy penetrated it without check, and killed its Christian substance.
We have never seen the latter expression before, and though it may possibly be a modernism in good usage, it was certainly unknown in the days when we attempted to acquire our education.
The language has been purged of every trace of modernism and flows with that semi-solemn, archaic, Elizabethan cadence that almost makes it hard to believe that it was written in this century.
It was not long before his tentative movement towards modernism ended in a profession of Catholic principles which allied him with forces definitely and sometimes angrily ranged against the Higher Criticism.
The battle which modernism is now fighting over this collection of books concerns the Person of Jesus and the relative value of the gospels which narrate His life, and in the case of the Fourth, endeavour to expound His teaching.
Not many people in Anglo-Catholic circles realise perhaps that to the educated nonconformist all this excitement about modernism seems strangely old-fashioned.
They flee from the intolerant zealotry of the sacerdotal south to the genial modernism of the latitudinarian north.
And again, writing of Catholic Modernism in France: We have given our reasons for rejecting the Modernist attempt at reconstruction.
He who had frightened Liddon by his tremulous adventure towards the mere fringe of modernismbecame the declared enemy, the implacable foe, of the least of his clergy who questioned even the most questionable clauses of the creeds.
He was known as a High Churchman; he was felt to be a saint; his modernism was almost forgotten.
Modernism has fought and won the battle of verbal inspiration.
It is a diatribe against modernism by a champion of lost causes, an exacerbated lover of the "Singular Virgin and fecund Mother of the Verb.
Here the old types, uncon-taminated by modernism and emigration, are still gathered together.
The opposition toModernism is not yet a part of the history of thought.
The history of Modernism as an effective contention in the world of Christian thought seems scarcely begun.
He has joined with modernism most consistently, having arrived at this state of progression by the process of investigation.
It would seem to me to be a sign of modernism in us to preserve the living esthetic splendors in our midst.
Dada-ism is the latest phase ofmodernism in painting as well as in literature, and carries with it all the passion for freedom of expression which Marinetti sponsored so loudly in his futuristic manifestoes.
Modernism is inclined to pantheism by its doctrine of divine immanence--i.
If so, then the position of Modernism must not be opposed to that of Catholicism, nor exterior revelation be rejected.
But far more effective in darkening the mind and leading it into error is pride, which, as it were, dwells in Modernism as in its own house.
For a complete analysis of Modernism we must go to the encyclical itself.
The pope has spoken, Modernism has ceased to be," wrote Paul Bourget a year or two later.
The Modernist movement had quickened a thousand dim dreams of reunion into enthusiastic hopes," wrote Father Tyrrell, the leader of Modernism in England, "when lo!
The Modernism condemned by the pope is the negation of the Church's teaching.
But if God declares Himself not distinct from us, the position of Modernism becomes openly pantheistic.
In the place of the historical God-Man, Modernism gives us the history of the Church as an object of reverence.
The condemnations of Modernism published by the Vatican show that the Papal court is quite alive to this danger.
There are some who think that the Church will grow tired of the attitude of Canute, and will retreat to the chair which Modernism proffers, well above high-water mark.
Loisy says in his last book, 'Modernism tends to ruin completely,' Just so; but the Roman Church lives entirely on the faith in supernatural mechanism.
Anglo-Catholicism and Modernism are alien growths, perhaps, in the institutions where they have found a place; but the man who beyond all others is responsible for grafting them upon the old stems is secure of his place in history.
Further, the religious philosophy ofModernism is bad, much worse than the scholasticism which it derides.
In the first place, Modernism destroys the historical basis of Christianity, and converts the Incarnation and Atonement into myths like those of other dying and rising saviour-gods, which hardly pretend to be historical.
That is all that Modernismoffers us; and it will not do.
The purpose of Modernism is threefold: the abolition of the scholastic method in philosophy, the abolition of tradition and of the authority of the Fathers; and the abolition of the ecclesiastical magisterium, the teaching Church.
But the efforts of the Holy Father were successful; Modernism has lost its prestige as a system, and men now that they are warned of its true character are quickly abandoning its influences.
That its measures were effective is evident from the history of Modernism in the last three years.
Thus the essence of Modernism tends, from a social point of view, to subject the doctrines of the Church to the vague but dominant ideas of the moment, unknown yesterday, and forgotten tomorrow.
These dogmas, Modernism says, are the instruments of the believer, the symbols of his faith.
The condemnation of Modernism naturally aroused the anger of its votaries.
Modernism claiming to be a development was actually an abandonment of the Christian idea.
Discussing Modernism in the Nation, he analyses the difference between the true development of an idea and the mere changing from one idea to another.
And, lastly, Modernism began and continues, wherever civilization began and continues to deny Christ.
Of all the wastes of time and sense which Modernism has invented--and they are many--none are so ridiculous as this endeavor to represent past history.
Each of the new divisions has a philosophy and a criticism of its own; each of them has an immense hold on human life, though Modernismis only now slowly realizing and putting out its power.
From this point of view modernism must continually be changing, for the moment now is in perpetual flux.
We must not, however, be blinded by the modernism of Menander to the fact that ancient comedy differed in many most important respects from the comedy of modern Europe.
But, although Montevideo flourished and increased for rather more than a century and a half, its leap into complete modernism has only been effected within the last thirty years.
The spirit ofmodernism that is now evident in Uruguay has entered to a certain extent into the waging of these internal struggles that themselves by rights should belong to the past.
San Sebastian is the summer resort of royalty, and of pleasure-seekers from all parts of Europe; its modernism is that of Paris or Vienna.
Broadly, Modernism has devised for itself an education that teaches it to earn each day the cost of a thousand pleasures, but by which it is robbed of the power to enjoy any one of them.
To an extent there are grounds for the anxiety, sometimes expressed, that modernism is melting away this tradition-worship.
Who can deny the statement that the only thing modern about modernism is its hypocrisy?
But the most dangerous attack ever made is on, by evolution claiming the name of science and modernism claiming the name of religion.
Strange to say, it is advocated by some religious newspapers, along with modernism and other varieties of infidelity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modernism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
