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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pregnant criticism of modern Christianity was expressed by Dr. Frederick H. Knubel of Manhattan, president of the United Lutheran Church in America. Said he: "The three tendencies which menace the growth of the Church throughout the world are first, syncretism, or the attempt to reconcile Christianity to other religious bodies, as, for instance, Mohammedanism, with which it is irreconcilably at variance; second, secularism, or the onslaught of worldly philosophies upon the Church and its teachings; and third, the social gospel or social Christianity which attempts to enforce its teachings through coercion upon a State or Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Council of Copenhagen | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...Syncretism says that all religions are true, secularism says all religions are false and also says the State must be lord over the Church, the social gospel says the Church must be lord over the State." All three attitudes Dr. Knubel viewed with alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Council of Copenhagen | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...sixth time the Rev. Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel was elected president of the United Lutheran Church in America. He has held the office since he was first elected ten years ago. He is a New Yorker by birth and by residence, is 58 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Philadelphia Snubbed | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...summer, the Rev. Mr. Seebach took a much-needed holiday in Europe. No other preacher was engaged. Instead, Mrs. Julius Seebach, long rumored to have been the author of her husband's eloquent sermons, took the pulpit. Irritated female parishioners filed a protest with the Rev. Frederick H. Knubel, President of the United Lutheran Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unordained | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

Said President Knubel: "It is true that an unordained person may fill a pulpit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unordained | 7/13/1925 | See Source »

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