modernism
noun
- the movement in Roman Catholic thought that sought to interpret the teachings of the Church in the light of philosophic and scientific conceptions prevalent in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: condemned by Pope Pius X in 1907.
- the liberal theological tendency in Protestantism in the 20th century.
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Contemporary Examples of modernism
If modernism was going to be acceptable, its leftist leanings had to be gotten rid of.
In the early years, modernism had a kind of progressive, even socialist bent to it.
And so the Jewishness of modernism was written out of the history in a way.
In the 1930s, MoMA did a big show on the Bauhaus, and they worked very hard to say that modernism was a style.
Were they more interested in modernism than the American public at large?
Historical Examples of modernism
We know him well: Xenophon's modernism comes out in these things.
CyropaediaXenophon
But now all is crumbling before the poisonous onslaught of modernism.
Sugar PlumReginald Bretnor
Too angry to deny the convenient charge of "modernism," he sought the street.
The Higher CourtMary Stewart Daggett
He bowed his head, revolving in his mind the definite charge of "modernism."
The Higher CourtMary Stewart Daggett
Consequently the charge of "modernism" fell like a bolt from a clear sky.
The Higher CourtMary Stewart Daggett