The Christian Modernism: the experience of working with definitions

Abstract

The term "modernism" will not become a subject of scientific consideration, until the need for a concise and precise definition is satisfied, allowing neither narrowing nor expansion of the concept. The best definition of this term, due to Leonce le Grandmaison, is still poorly known. Modernism is a genus term that implies targeted changes in religion based on the key idea of Modernity — the idea of progress. The strongest form of church modernism is possible where the Church as an organization is presented as a) a super-value that must "adapt to" and "survive in the world", b) an authority that has the right to cancel its own fundamental decisions made in the past.