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MACAULAY, Thomas Babington (1800-1859):
 
MACAULAY, Zachary (1768-1838):
 
MACCABEES, BOOK OF:
 
MACHEN, John Gresham (1881-1937):
 
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo (1469-1527):
 
MACKINTOSH, Hugh Ross (1870-1936):
 
MACLAINE, Shirley (1935-):
 
MADHVA (1197-1276):
 
MDHYAMIKA:
 
MAGI:
 
MAGIC:
 
MAHBHRATA:
 
MAHBODHI SOCIETY:
 
MAHKYAPA THERA (6th century B.C.?):
 
MAHSATIPATTHANA SUTTA:
 
MAHVASA:
 
MAHVASTU:
 
MAHVRA (550-420 B.C.?):
 
MAHYNA:
 
MAHDI:
 
MAHINDA (3rd century B.C.):
 
MAIMONIDES, Moses (1135-1204):
 
MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw Kaspar (1884-1942):
 
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert (1766-1834):
 
MANDALA:
 
MANI (216-277):
 
MANICHAEISM:
 
MAJUR:
 
MANNHEIM, Karl (1893-1947):
 
MANTRA:
 
MANU:
 
MARA:
 
MARCEL, Gabriel (1889-1973):
 
MARCION (85-160):
 
MARCUS Aurelius (121-180):
 
MARITAIN, Jacques (1882-1973):
 
MARTIN, David (1939-):
 
MARTYR:
 
MARX, Karl (1818-1883):
 
MARY, (1st century):
 
MASS:
 
MATERIALISM:
 
MATHER, Cotton (1663-1728):
 
MATTER:
 
MATTHEW, GOSPEL:
 
MAURICE, Fredrick Denison (1805-1872):
 
MAWLID al-NABI:
 
MAYA (6th century B.C.):
 
MAYA:
 
MEAD, Margaret (1901-1978):
 
MEAN:
 
MEANING:
 
MECCA:
 
MEDINA:
 
MEDITATION:
 
MEEKNESS:
 
MELANCHTON, Phillip (1497-1560):
 
MENCIUS (371-289 B.C.):
 
MENDELSSOHN, Moses (1729-1786):
 
MENNONITES:
 
MERCURY:
 
MERCY:
 
MERIT:
 
MERLEAU-PONTY, Maurice (1908-1961):
 
MERTON, Thomas (1915-1968):
 
MESSIAH:
 
METAPHYSICS:
 
METEMAPSYCHOSIS:
 
METHODISM:
 
MEYKANDA (13th century):
 
MEYNELL, Hugo Anthony (1936-):
 
MICHELANGELO (1475-1564):
 
MILL, John Stuart (1806-1873):
 
MILLENARIAN MOVEMENTS:
 
MILLENNIALISM:
 
MILLER, William (1795-1883):
 
MILLERITES:
 
MILTON, John (1608-1674):
 
MIRACLE:
 
MISSION:
 
MISSIONARY:
 
MITHRA:
 
MITHRAISM:
 
MODERNIST:
 
MODERNITY, MODERNISM, AND RELATED DEFINITIONS:
 
MOFFAT, Robert (1795-1883):
 
MOLTMANN, Jürgen (1926-):
 
MONASTICISM:
 
MONISM:
 
MONOPHYSITISM:
 
MONOTHEISM:
 
MONTANISM:
 
MOODY, Dwight Lyman (1837-1899):
 
MOON, Sun Myung (1920-):
 
MOORE, George Edward (1873-1958)
 
MOORE, Hannah (1745-1833):
 
MORAVIANS:
 
MORE, Thomas (1478-1535):
 
MORGAN, Lewis (1818-1881):
 
MORMONS:
 
MORRIS, William (1834-1896):
 
MOSCA, Gaetano (1858-1955):
 
MOSQUE:
 
MOSES (12th-13th century B.C.):
 
MOTT, John Raleigh (1865-1955):
 
MO-TZU (5th century B.C.):
 
MOURNING:
 
MUHAMMAD (571-632):
 
MUHAMMAD 'ABDUH (1849-1905):
 
MÜLLER, Friedrich Maximilian (1823-1900):
 
MÜLLER, George (1805-1898):
 
MÜNZER, Thomas (1490-1525):
 
MURRAY, Andrew Jr. (1828-1917):
 
MUSLIM:
 
MYSTERY RELIGIONS:
 
MYSTIC:
 
MYSTICISM:
 
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MODERNIST:

proponents of theological MODERNISM who in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries rejected the THEOLOGY and METAPHYSICS of traditional CHRISTIANITY in favor of a Kantian epistemology, evolution, BIBLICAL HIGHER CRITICISM, and COMPARATIVE RELIGION. They accommodated their FAITH to the latest theories of SCIENCE and promoted LIBERAL ETHICS based the brotherhood of man and the FATHERHOOD OF GOD. The inherent goodness of man and the inevitability of progress were AXIOMATIC while the BIBLE was seen as the record of the human religious experience

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