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Topic: Modernist Christianity

	Liberal Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Liberal Christianity exists within many denominations throughout the Christian world, and is often described as 'modernism', though it would be more accurate to describe modernism as a movement within liberal Christianity, since not all liberal Christians are modernists.
		Disagreements between conservative and liberal Christians arise most frequently when the latter perceive that the former are exhibiting a lack of compassion, mercy, love and inclusiveness, and when the former perceive the latter to be abandoning essential Christian doctrines.
		Although Fundamentalist Christianity has been rejected by the mainline churches, liberalism's dominance was waning by the late 20th century with the rise of the more moderate alternatives, such as Neo-orthodoxy, Paleo-orthodoxy and Postmodern Christianity, and more conservative movements such as Neo-evangelicalism and the Confessing movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modernist_Christianity (1934 words)

	Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Crucial beliefs in Christian teaching are Jesus' incarnation, atonement, crucifixion, and resurrection from the dead to redeem humankind from sin and death; and the belief that the New Testament is a part of the Bible.
		Christian Love is basic to many forms of Christianity, based in part on Christ's answer to the question, "Which is the greatest commandment?" To which he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
		Christians accept the Old Testament as part of their Biblical canon, but they neither consider the Qur'an to be a book of divine revelation or a part of their faith nor agree with Islam's view that Jesus was a prophet, on par with Muhammad.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christianity (5307 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Modernism
		Many and varied also are the modernist dreams of an understanding between the different Christian religions, nay, even between religion and a species of atheism, and all on a basis of agreement that must be superior to mere doctrinal differences.
		In the modernist conception, the Church can no longer define dogma in God's name and with His infallible help; the ecclesiastical authority is now but a secondary interpreter, subject to the collective consciousness which she has to express.
		Like the modernists, he has dreams of new religious apologetics; he wants to be a Christian; he declares himself independent of all philosophy; he rejects natural religion as a pure abstraction, and derives dogma from religious experience.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10415a.htm (7834 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Modernism
		Modernist primitivism and pessimism was controversial but was not seen as representative of the Edwardian mainstream, which was more inclined towards a Victorian faith in progress and liberal optimism.
		Modernists, in turn, attacked the madness of hurling millions of young men into the hell of war, and the falseness of artistic norms which could not depict the emotional reality of life in the 20th century.
		Modernist design also began to enter the mainstream of popular culture, as simplified and stylized forms became popular, often associated with dreams of a space age high-tech future.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Modernist (6124 words)

	News from Agape Press
		Christianity in the West appears to be in the process of retreating everywhere under the advancing assault of secularism and New Age spirituality.
		One sign of the weakness of Christianity in Europe is church attendance.
		After all, Christians in Europe, North America and Oceania already have their hands full with spiritual problems at home: they are stinging from cultural setbacks over the last 50 years on issues ranging from abortion to homosexuality, and fighting to keep secularism from capturing even larger swaths of the populace.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/3/52004a.asp (1818 words)

	Harnack, Adolf: Outlines of the History of Dogma
		The Christian religion in the 3rd century made no compromise with any of the pagan religions and kept far away from the numerous intersections out of which, under the influence of the monotheistic philosophy of religion, a now religiousness developed itself.
		It is the drama of the rise of a humanism in the midst of Christianity which is critical of the Christian tradition, departs from it and produces a vast world of secular existence and thought.
		Christianity, it is suggested, is basically a matter of the Old Testament language and a continuation of Old Testament theology and piety.
	www.bible.ca /trinity/trinity-Harnack.htm (6156 words)

	Myth Matters - Christianity Today Magazine
		Unlike so many contemporary Christian academics who passively (if not unconsciously) accept the existing assumptions on which their discipline is based and then meekly ask that God's name be mentioned now and then, Lewis went on the offensive and challenged the assumptions themselves.
		This puts Christians in the precarious position of criticizing the excesses of New Age thought while yet participating in its central goal of restoring a spiritual focus to a society that generally resists any serious consideration of the supernatural.
		Christian thought (like the Platonic metaphysics that preceded it) is deductive, for it begins with a priori assumptions that must be accepted as givens before logical thought can begin (e.g., the existence of God, the authority of Scripture, the immortality of the soul, the possibility and reliability of divine revelation).
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2001/006/1.32.html (4568 words)

	CHRISTIANITY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		These groups normally claim to descend from the oringinal New Testament Church and profess to be Christian, but do not believe that they in any fashion descend or are a sect of the Roman_Catholic_Church or from any of its sects.
		http://www.lifeway.com/lwc/article_main_page/0,1703,A%253D151165%2526M%253D50011,00.html This is partly due to a loss of evangelistic zeal, partly due to drift of their membership to Christian churches which are associated with a more conservative_Christianity, and partly due to the failure of one generation to pass on Christianity to the next.
		Christian_Love is basic to many forms of Christianity, based in part on Christ's answer to the question, "Which is the greatest commandment?" To which he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
	www.flowergods.com /Christianity (5162 words)

	> Christianity abcworld.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For instance, many Christians have disagreed with new scientific estimates about the age of the Earth and the development of the concept of evolution, especially in the United States, espousing instead creationism.
		The central belief of Christianity is that by faith in the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus, individuals are saved from deathâ”both spiritual and physicalâ”by redemption from their sins (i.e., faults, misdeeds, disobedience, rebellion against God).
		Indeed, many Christians forcefully reject the entirety of the Muslim faith system, arguing that believers were forewarned expressly by the Messiah to be aware of false prophets and to know them by their works, and citing Jesus's statement that anybody who is not with him is against him.
	www.abcworld.net /Christianity.html (5221 words)

	CHRISTIANITY FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Many traditions and groups exist, including Jehovah's_Witnesses, the Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints (Mormonism), and others, which often describe themselves as Christian but are not usually recognized as such by other Christian denominations, as their teachings are held by many Christians to be unorthodox or heretical.
		Many did resist or abandon Christianity, developing belief systems such as Deism, Unitarianism, and Universalism, or becoming atheists, agnostics, or humanists.
		These beliefs are stated in a number of creeds, of which the most important and widely used are probably the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, commonly known as the Nicene_Creed.
	www.palfacts.com /simple:Christianity (4857 words)

	The Postmodern Moment - Christianity Today Magazine
		The modernist promise of inevitable progress fueled by the inherent goodness of knowledge has been judged a fairy tale by the experience of the last century, the bloodiest in all of history.
		The death of the highest modernist ideals is not widely realized, but evangelicals should recognize it and change our posture from reactive to constructive, because we find ourselves in a culture with an empty stage and an open microphone.
		In the modernist exaltation of knowledge, we teeter on a biblicism that sees the Christian faith as a religion of a book rather than a relationship with the Triune God and our neighbors.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2002/007/25.53.html (1477 words)

	AFAJournal.org - The Church
		In what is called the “Global South” – Africa, Latin America and Asia – Christianity is growing in staggering fashion, promising in the next 50 years or so to eclipse the West as the spiritual home of the faith.
		According to researcher David Barrett, author of the well-respected World Christian Encyclopedia, Africa is gaining 8.4 million new Christians a year, and that number is a net total – that is, new converts minus those who leave the faith.
		“Muslim and Christian nations will expand adjacent to each other,” says Jenkins, “and often, Muslim and Christian communities will both grow within the same country.…[W]e face the likelihood that population growth will be accompanied by intensified rivalry, by struggles for converts, by competing attempts to enforce moral codes by means of secular law.
	www.afajournal.org /2004/march/304the_church.asp (1779 words)

	Bible League - Asian Christians Rapidly Increasing
		This is roughly equal to the percentage of all Christians who live in Europe, where the number of Christians has actually been declining over the last few decades, as it has in the United States.
		This phenomenon is called the "southward shift of Christianity." And it provides good news for those committed to the Gospel.
		The form of Christianity sweeping Asia is not the modernist, liberal Christianity that rocks the foundation of the world's traditionally Christian societies.
	www.bibleleague.org /mpa/mpa111203d.php (199 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Between Heaven and Hell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The position of JFK is that of a humanistic Christian in the sense of emphasizing "horizontal" social activity rather than "vertical" religious experience...religion without revelation.
		He represents the eastern pantheist position and reinterprets Christianity as a form of the universal philosophy of pantheism.
		Throughout the discussion, Kreeft continually reminds the reader that as Christians, we don't try to win arguments for ourselves (I use "argument" in the technical sense of presenting evidence in favor of one's position).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877843899?v=glance (2752 words)

	Faith at Work Blog :: It's Easter time and I am Passionate about the Resurrection! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		She wouldn’t describe herself that way, but the president of Wood Lake Books is positioning the publishing company to support a new way of seeing and interpreting Christianity.
		Christianity has made many turns along its 2,000-year path, and now it is at another crossroads with what has been called the emerging paradigm by theologian Marcus Borg.
		And that is one of the biggest ironies, I find, about modernist re-interpretations of Christianity: they will take the a priori assumptions of science and modernity on faith and use these as weapons against orthodox faith.
	blog.mike.mcloughlin.com /blog/_archives/2005/3/8/409862.html (1562 words)

	Objection: You Guys Are Liberals, Right!?
		It is rather strange for a Catholic to be called a liberal, because Catholics attempt to return to the beliefs and practices of the ancient church, which makes 19th century beliefs and worship seem rather liberal and new themselves.
		the Christianity of the early Church and beyond) seems "liberal" on some issues (against most forms of war, against the death penalty, etc), yet "conservative" on others (sex is only appropriate between a married man and woman, abortion is wrong, etc).
		Our vision, and that of the Church, is that as Christians we should not work our faith around modern cultural and secular trends, but rather strive to view cultural and secular trends in light of our faith.
	www.ancient-future.net /liberals.html (689 words)

	Crosswalk.com - The Rebirth of Christianity: The Gospel Blossoms in the East (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Crosswalk.com - The Rebirth of Christianity: The Gospel Blossoms in the East
		The Rebirth of Christianity: The Gospel Blossoms in the East
		It was a strange headline that appeared two years ago in The London Times: "Christianity Almost Beaten in Britain, says Cardinal."
	www.crosswalk.com /news/religiontoday/1250275.html (1835 words)

	Delv.co.uk: early modernist writing websites in the UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Find early modernist writing and more at Lycos Search.
		Starware search is an excellent resource for quality sites on early modernist writing and much more!
		Read about early modernist writing in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary.
	www.inspiredmusic.co.uk /memorabilia/early_modernist_writing.html (152 words)

	Canadian Conservative Forum - Requested Essay
		Ryan maps the evolution of the anti-Christian campaign waged against Christianity by modernist liberal-left ideologies through the 19th and 20th Centuries.
		Former Professor of Moral Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, now retired, Dr. Ryan makes his home in Nova Scotia.
		Opinions expressed in this article are the opinions of the author, and are not necessarily shared by conservativeforum.org or the members of its Editorial Board.
	www.conservativeforum.org /EssaysForm.asp?ID=6061 (1803 words)

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