Liberalism and Modernism in 19th Century France

Outline:

A.  Lamenais’ ideas of liberal Catholicism:  voluntary poverty of the Church; centralization; political action blocks.  On the Polish Revolution: “The hierarchy has divorced itself from Christ, the savior of the world, in order to fornicate with all his torturers.”

B.  Pio Nono and Pio Nono Secundo:  Immaculate Conception; Syllabus of Errors

C.  Modernism:  God is made in the image and likeness of man.  Loisy:  the bible is “a mosaic of divine truths and human error.”  Fundamentalism believes more and more in less and less.  Tyrell:  immanence:  religion is created because of human psychological need.  Doctrines are symbolic attempts to codify Jesus Christ and his ethic.

D.  Pascendi gregis.  Immanentism.  Agnosticism.  Symbolism.  Evolutionism.