562nd ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1915, 



AT 4.30 r.M. 



The Very Rev. Henry Wace, D.D., Dean of Canterbury, 

 took the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Chairman introduced the Rev. Canon E. McClure, and said that 

 there were few men to whom the Church of England owed a greater debt 

 than to the Literary Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of 

 Christian Knowledge. He congratulated him on his courage in dealing 

 with so wide a subject as "Modernism," since the amount of literature 

 to be mastered was so immense. But he had great qualifications for this 

 task, and no man was better able to fulfil it. 



MODERNISM AND TRADITIONAL CHRISTIANITY.— 

 By the Rev. Canon E. McClure, M.A., M.R.I.A. 



THE movement within the Roman Communion, named 

 " Modernism " in the Papal Encyclical Pascendi, belongs 

 to the present century. Its earliest exponent was Alfred 

 Loisy, a French priest, who, in his V Evangile et I'Eglise 

 (Paris, 1902), laid down the principles of this fresh presentation 

 of Christianity. This work was followed by other volumes of 

 the same author, and by others emanating from the same 

 school. 



M. Loisy on the Gospels. 



M. Loisy, in the work just named, shows how the Gospel is 

 regarded from the Modernist point of view. This position may 

 be best gathered from a short summary of his opinions 

 thereon. 



The Gospels, according to M. Loisy, are a patchwork, in 

 which anything of an historical character is blended with a 

 large amount of legend. The dates to which he ascribes the 

 Synoptic Gospels are not those accepted by experts in this 



