There was a time when it was presumed that there was a single truth of a religion that could be identified and that those who had different beliefs were wrong and perhaps heretics who should be shunned. (religion-online.org)
For the liberals the great truths of religion and ethics are timeless and eternal, though it is only within human history that they are realized, and only in concrete historical processes that they are given clear expression. (religion-online.org)
There he defined a Modernist as «a churchman who believes in the possibility of a synthesis between the essential truth of his religion and the essential truth of modernity».7 Like Loisy, he was critical of the Protestant Liberals, making the much - quoted remark that the Christ that Harnack saw, looking back through nineteen centuries of Catholic darkness, was only the reflection of a Liberal Protestant face seen at the bottom of a deep well. (religion-online.org)