Word: modernist
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...schools are represented; paintings ranging through chromo, academic and modernist styles in all their manifestations hang in assorted order on the overcrowded walls. The collection contains art good and bad, famous and obscure, enormous and microscopic, bewildering the casual observer by its startling democracy...
...year Dr. Grant has been Rector of the Church of the Ascension in New York City. Lately this church has become one of the centers of the Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy, because of Dr. Grant's courageous stand for Modernism. His popular method of expounding the Gospels has attracted thousands to his church every week...
...Grant gave the Modernist movement a great impulse about a year ago by a sermon, which has drawn praise and censure in the two extremes. The movement has now spread throughout the country, arousing new interest in religion...
Glenn Frank,* journalist-lecturer, describing himself as a modernist criticizing modernism, prophesied the coming of a second Martin Luther to put positive vitality into the ineffectual religion of the modernists. He supplied the anticipated Luther with 14 points. They were...
...heretics, says he, and he will not get out until the other heretics get out. Then he makes the crack which is intended to smart in high places: "Is it my theology or my economics that is being attacked?" It is, of course, his economics, which even the Modernist handles with care...