Word: modernist
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...action has nothing whatever to do with the modernist controversy. Bishop Brown's trouble is more pathological than theological. He is a nuisance which the Bishops feel they must efficiently and speedily dispose...
...Manhattan, the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, target of many modernist attacks within the Protestant Episcopal Church, "called off his dogs" temporarily by enjoining all clergy of his diocese to refrain from theological controversy at the Christmas season. Both liberals and conservatives moderated the tone of their utterances or remained silent in consequence, but rumors circulated among the modernists that certain close clerical friends of Bishop Manning were violating the spirit of the truce by sending out circuar letters in an effort to repair fences and round up the Bishop's supporters for a firm stand in the post...
...dances and "paganism" in worship incurred the displeasure of Bishop Manning, announced that a detailed statement from himself and his vestry would be made after the holidays. Dr. Guthrie is more of a mystic and an aesthete than a theological radical, but is in general sympathy with the modernist position...
Developments in other Protestant communions on the Fundamentalist- Modernist battle-line...
Paris sees the year out with the modernist Salon d'Automne in full bloom at the Grand Palais of the Champs- Elysees. This is one of the five regular annual Paris Salons, and may be called the neo-academic showing en masse of the younger, progressive and cosmopolitan groups of painters, once called "fauves," now broadly classified as followers of Cezanne...