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Updated: June 3, 2025
The modernist, like the Protestants before him, is certainly justified in contrasting a certain essence or true life of religion with the formulas and practices, not all equally well-chosen, which have crystallised round it.
But as she spoke she saw, with discomfort, that the newspaper on her mother's knee was the Church Guardian, in which a lively correspondence on the subject of Meynell and the Modernist Movement generally was at the moment proceeding. "Yes, I have been reading," said Catharine slowly "and I have been very sad." "Then I wish you wouldn't read!" cried Mary, kissing her hand.
He was tall, with expressive arms that were too long for his sleeves, and a nose that would have done credit to a field-marshal. The other was Norton Pyford, the modernist composer, who had developed the study of discord to such a point that his very features seemed to lack proportion, and when he smiled his face presented a lop-sided appearance.
"Purified...." Henry recollected that Dr. Franchi was a modernist and a heretic. "A queer word," he mused. "I am not sure that I know what it means." "Ah. You are orthodox Catholic, no doubt. You admit no possible impurities in the faith." "I have never thought about it. I do not even know what an impurity is. One thing does not seem to me much more pure than another, and not much more odd.
It is one thing to admit that dogmas in many cases have a pragmatic origin, and quite another to say that they may be invented or rejected with a pragmatic purpose. The healthy human intellect will never believe that the same proposition may be true for faith and untrue in fact; but this is the Modernist contention.
Attach to him the label of "modernist" or the label of "traditionalist," and it will still be the same little eager man thrusting his way forward on either road with downward head and peering eyes, arguing with anyone who gets in his way, and loving his argument far more than his way. When he was at Oxford, and was often in controversial conflict with Dr.
The sermon was to be known in after years by the name of "The Two Christianities" and became one of the chief landmarks, or, rather, rallying cries of the Modernist cause. Only some fragments of it can be suggested here; one passage, above all, that Mary's brooding memory will keep close and warm to her life's end: "...Why are we here, my friends?
Two words are constantly in the mouth of Modernist controversialists in speaking of their opponents.
The court broke up in a clamour of excitement and discussion, with crowds of country parishioners standing outside to greet the three incriminated priests as they came out. The following morning Meynell rose. And for one brilliant week, his defence of the Modernist position held the attention of England.
The Modernist might argue that he is only extending to the history of the Church the doctrine of education by experience which Newman found to be true in the life-history of the individual. Life itself, with its experiences and its needs, is the revealer of truth. We cannot anticipate the wisdom of the future. 'I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me.
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