To tell the truth, these modernists did not permit the hereafter to awe or affright them.
Modernists we are; modernists we will remain; let our only object be to be worthy of this noble name.
Catholics are more reluctant to join progressive movements than Modernists and Modernists than Evolutionists.
While Fundamentalists and Modernists differ regarding the divinity of Christ, all Christians and many non-Christians still cling to preconceived notions of the perfection of Jesus.
Jesus would have attracted no attention were it not for the very circumstances which Modernists admit were mythical.
Following the lead of his too liberal counsellor Heinke, he distinguished, much in the manner of the Modernists of today, between what he considered essential and immutable in the Church, and what was only accessory and changeable.
Condemnation--The Holy Father then condemns Modernism: "But these suffice to show by how many ways the doctrine of the Modernists leads to atheism and to the destruction of all religion.
As to worship, the Modernists while desiring to be indulgent in its regard, would nevertheless gradually diminish it.
Indeed, as is the case with the Modernists of today, the votaries of these "advanced" Catholic notions are often actual pantheists and atheists, while proclaiming their loyalty to the Church and her teachings.
The expulsion of all Modernists from the rectorship and professorships of Seminaries and Catholic Universities.
The Modernists do not form an organized party; they have no programme.
But he did not draw the conclusion which the Modernists draw that if Catholicism is not to lose its power of growth and die, it must assimilate some of the results of modern thought.
For many years past, liberal divines in the Protestant Churches have been doing what the Modernists are doing.
The intellectual processes which lead to them appear to the modernists altogether foreign to and independent of one another.
It is also this view of the more recent philosophy that the modernists have adopted.
In a few weeks the poorModernists will be all camping in tents, it seems, by the wayside.
According to him the proceedings of the Modernists were "as contrary to morality as to law," and he marvelled how "honest men" could consent to occupy the position of Meynell and his friends.
The Modernists had put themselves forward as the champions of science, led to the conclusions they defended by anxiety for scientific truth.
Still we maintain that the modernists are really looking to the old-world "kept" woman for their ideal of more or less open and, as it were, established free love.
What good does the Vatican do to the cause of Christ by vituperating the Modernists because they are honest?
In some respects, it may be noted, Confucius's position is not very far removed from that of some of the so-called Modernists of our own time.
Development, however great the changes which it exhibits, can only follow certain laws; and the development of the Church of Rome has steadily followed a direction opposite to that which the Modernists demand that it shall take.
But now comes in the peculiar philosophy by which the Modernists claim to rehabilitate themselves as loyal and orthodox Catholics, and to turn the flank of the rationalist position, which they have seemed to occupy themselves.
The Modernists are right in finding the primary principle of faith in the depths of our undivided personality.
It is thus on a very elastic theory of development that the Modernists rely.
There is an additional difficulty in the fact that few of the Modernists are more than amateurs in philosophy.
Lastly, the subjectivism of Newman and the Modernists is fatal to that exclusiveness which is the corner-stone of Catholic policy.
We pass to the position of the Modernistsin the Roman Catholic Church.
The Modernists themselves desire, for the most part, that criticism rather than philosophy should be regarded as the starting-point of the movement.
It will be more to the purpose to consider whether, in spite of their official condemnation, the Modernists are likely in the future to make good their footing in the Roman Church.
Because the Modernists have denied that the divine facts related in the Gospel are historically true.
When the time comes for this building to rise, the contributions of the Modernists will not be described as wood, hay, or stubble.
We cannot accept the irreconcilable dualism between the will-world and the world of phenomena which the philosophical Modernists assume.
This denial of the supernatural as a factor in the physical world seems to us alone sufficient to make the position of the Modernists in the Roman Church untenable.
There is a new position taken by the modernists among the Jews which constitutes a denial that the Jew differs from any other man except in the matter of religion.
A still more serious challenge would arise if this contention of the modernists were true, for it would necessitate the explanation of these world-controlling Jews by their religion.
Some modernists reject a part of these great truths, and some reject all.
Evolutionists are, as a rule, modernists; and modernists are evolutionists, and are reckless in their zeal to destroy the faith of the young committed to their care.
Modernists ignore the cause of sin, the effects of sin, and the remedy for sin.
Modernists are evidently ashamed of a name which fitly describes their views, and seek another.
One of the gravest objections to the doctrine of the modernists is that it ignores sin in the sense in which the Bible describes sin.
Only about 2% of the members of evangelical churches, it is said, are modernists and evolutionists.
Modernists and Neo- Catholic Party in his own country, showed a keen interest in his writings, and many of them endeavoured to find encouragement and stimulus in his work.
We find that in France he has been welcomed by the Modernists of the Roman Catholic Church as an ally, and by not a few liberal and progressive Christian theologians in this country.
The modernists think the church is doomed if it turns a deaf ear to the higher criticism or ignores the philosophy of M.
Because, as one of the most distinguishedmodernists has said, the age of partial heresy is past.
In a Catholic seminary, as the modernistsbitterly complain, very little is heard of the views held in the learned world outside.
But these excellent things appear in the modernists under rather unfortunate circumstances.
The biblical criticism and mystical speculations of the modernists call for no special remark; they are such as any studious or spiritual person, with no inherited religion, might compose in our day.
Yet even in this historical and poetical allegiance to Christianity I suspect the modernistssuffer from a serious illusion.
Thus both their sense for historical truth and their spontaneous mysticism drive the modernists to contrast with the official religion what was pure and vital in the religion of their fathers.
It is quite true, as the modernists tell us, that in the beginning Christian faith was not a matter of scholastic definitions, nor even of intellectual dogmas.
Religion, the modernists feel, must be taken broadly and sympathetically, as a great human historical symbol for the truth.
A scrupulous honesty in admitting the probable facts of history, and a fresh upwelling of mystical experience, these are the motives, creditable to any spiritual man, that have made modernists of so many.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "modernists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
