LIBERALISM

Sometimes called Modernism. Includes most Protestant religious philosophies that attempt a reconciliation of science, humanism , and traditional Christianity. Stresses the ethical teachings of Jesus and a social gospel. God is conceived as man's fellow worker in reforming the world. Human nature is essentially good. It says "Religion is a feeling of creaturely dependence on God" ( Schleiermacher ). Religion is that which "adds strength to frailty, fulfillment to frustration, wholeness to incompleteness" (Bewkes). See Protestant liberalism