MODERNISM.
Bishop Of Birmingham's Sermon.
CHURCH'S TWO-FOLD TASK.
(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) LONDON, September 30. The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W. Barnes, delivered a sermon on "Modernism" in Birmingham Cathedral yesterday. The preacher said they were faced with the two-fold task of defending and consolidating the religious gains of the Reformation against a revival of old credulities and of meeting evangelical fundamentalism by absorbing into its faith a new knowledge of the era. "Those who misunderstand us say we are slipping into the ditch of unbelief," said the bishop, "but we remember that, where the Lord is, there is freedom. The sense of religious freedom is the exhilarating thing in modernism. "We must set the Christian message against a new background. Fear paralyses too many religious teachers to-day. The modernist churchman will not put a mascot on his motor car or have his car blessed by a priest in some fanciful pseudo-religious service."
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 232, 1 October 1929, Page 7
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