By L. A. Stauffer Harry Emerson Fosdick, a twentieth-century preacher, could have lived at no other time in history. A product of eighteenth and nineteenth-century thought, Fosdick, a popular spokesman for modernism, was a thoroughly modern theologian. Some preachers cloaked modernism in Biblical terminology to conceal certain aspects of the new view, but Fosdick took the …
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The Hope of Modernism
By Weldon E. Warnock “Hopelessness, however, is a condition a .man cannot for long endure. Man will have his objects of hope or he will invent them anew.”(1) Modernism, therefore, rejecting and repudiating the hope of immortality, invented its own hope of a better world, here. Modernism strives toward an improved social order that will bring earthly …
Moulders of Modernism
By C. G. “Golly” Caldwell, III “Modernism” has been variously defined or described depending upon the context of the discussion in which the word is used. Classical “modernism” is the radical, theological liberalism of the past two centuries centering in what is called “higher Biblical criticism.” IL is basically philosophical and results in moving the adherent …
Being an Encouragement to Others
By Doug Seaton Barnabas was a faithful, enthusiastic, dedicated, Christian. He was a “good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, and of faith” (Acts 11:24). Shortly after Barnabas became a Christian he sold some land he owned and gave the money to the apostles for the aid of those in need (Acts 4:37). Barnabas had …