| | In Christian theology, modernism is a hostile term used by its enemies to attack the tendency of [[liberal Christianity]] toward revision of certain Christian doctrines such as the [[Virgin Birth]] and the [[Resurrection]] of Christ, or subjecting the Bible to the [[Higher Criticism]]. Modernism was the target of [[Fundamentalism|the Fundamentalists]] after 1910, and was an especially bitter issue in the 1920s. Like secular modernists, adherents of liberal theology often have lower standards of morality (for example, see: [[Liberal Christianity and marital infidelity|Liberal Christianity and higher prevalence of marital infidelity and other sexual immorality]]). | | In Christian theology, modernism is a hostile term used by its enemies to attack the tendency of [[liberal Christianity]] toward revision of certain Christian doctrines such as the [[Virgin Birth]] and the [[Resurrection]] of Christ, or subjecting the Bible to the [[Higher Criticism]]. Modernism was the target of [[Fundamentalism|the Fundamentalists]] after 1910, and was an especially bitter issue in the 1920s. Like secular modernists, adherents of liberal theology often have lower standards of morality (for example, see: [[Liberal Christianity and marital infidelity|Liberal Christianity and higher prevalence of marital infidelity and other sexual immorality]]). |
| − | However, not all modernists were opposed to religion and In 1927 the poet [[T.S. Eliot]] was baptized into the [[Church of England]], became a subject of the king, began publishing essays by conservative thinkers, and proclaimed himself a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion." <ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/modernism-conservatism/ "Modernism & Conservatism". The American Conservative]</ref> | + | However, not all modernists were opposed to religion and In 1927 the poet [[T.S. Eliot]] was baptized into the [[Church of England]], became a subject of the king, began publishing essays by conservative thinkers, and proclaimed himself a "classicist in literature, royalist in politics, and anglo-catholic in religion." <ref>https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/modernism-conservatism/ "Modernism & Conservatism". The American Conservative]</ref> Novelist [[William Faulkner]] is another modernist for whom Christianity was important.<ref>John Sykes, "Faulkner, Calvinism, and Religion". ''The Journal of Presbyterian History'', Vol. 75, No. 1 (SPRING 1997), pp. 43-53.</ref> |