Word: religion
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...illustrated in the Roman Catholic Church. The Modernists of that church are allied in many ways to Protestant liberalists. The fa- mous papal bull of 1907 defined Modernism with adequate correctness. The Modernists lay emphasis on biblical criticism, relativity of dogma, immanence of God, and the social element in religion. The absolute authority of the pope is questioned. They consider that the authority of the bishops rests on the people and not on their succession to the Apostles. The conception of the Catholic Church is opposed to all these views...
Professor George Foot More, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion, has been selected by the German government as Harvard Visiting Professor at the University of Berlin for the academic year of 1909-10, his term falling in the first half-year...
...degrees from Marietta College in 1885 and from Yale in 1897, and the degree of LL.D. from Western Reserve in 1903 and Harvard in 1906. From 1883 to 1902 Professor Moore was professor of Hebrew at the Andover Theological Seminary; in 1894-95 he was lecturer on the Hebrew Religion and Literature in Harvard, and was University Preacher from 1900 to 1903. In 1902 he was made professor of theology, which position he held until 1904, when he was made Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion...
...holding the positions of Fellow and lecturer in that college, he is lecturer in the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published a number of important articles, among which are "Revolution and Reaction in Modern France," "The Greek View of Life," "The Meaning of Good," and "Religion: a Criticism and Forecast...
...bitter opposition of generations of clergy, culminating in this explosion, forced Moliere into open conflict with the church. Professor Lefranc advanced the interesting theory that Moliere wrote "Le Tartuffe," not as an attack against religious hypocrites as a group,. but against religion in general. It was a defence of the legitimate existence of the drama, in the form of an attack on all those who wished to see the realization of the ideals of ascetic Christianity. "Le Tartuffe" is a turning point in the history of this revived paganism that culminated in Voltaire...