Word: religion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place to look for Jesus is in the Jewish synagogs, he solemnly assured his congregation. More of the religion of Jesus is taught in the synagogs than in all the Christian churches put together...
Jesus taught the Jewish religion, and his religion "remains Jewish all the same...
...Churches for Old (1922) he urged: get rid of theology, develop in its place a conception of religion as a social fellowship. He is against war and whiskey...
John Wesley, staunch Tory supporter of Church and King, had not intended that his Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
...spirit, wayward, melancholy, and splendid, belonged to the Renaissance-the English Renaissance, in which the conflicting currents of ambition, learning, religion, and lasciviousness were so subtly intervolved...