Word: rationalist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...denomination. He dissolved this society in 1879, and went to Europe, and on his return in 1881 formally withdrew from specific connection with any church, and devoted himself to literature in Boston. He had been a leader in the movement that has for its object the promotion of rationalist ideas in theology, and had contributed largely to various journals and reviews. In 1867 he became the first president of the Free Religious Society. He was for a time art critic for the New York Tribune...
...Renan tracing step by step the development of his ideas and opinions, giving even the hasty reader a clear notion of who Renan was, what position he held in the hearts of his people, and making plain what a great and wonderful thinker he was. Renan was a rationalist, not a Christian, and though few of us can agree with him in his radical ideas, we must all acknowledge that his conception of the relations of all matters, spiritual and physical, and his views of life and duty are the product of one of the deepest minds...