Sentences with phrase «protestant face seen»

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.