Centenary of the Modernist Crisis
As I have been reading and meditating a bit on Bhaktivinoda Thakur's modernist project, I found the following report on ABC, The Centenary of the Modernist Crisis , interesting in its review of the Catholic response to modernism, apparently a term invented by Pope Pius X and defined as "the synthesis of all heresies." When you read the transcript, you get the impression that Krishna consciousness had a similar reaction to the intellectual impetus that leads to modernism. ("It ushered in a period of repression, spies, secret vigilance committees, dismissals and excommunication that stifled open independent thought for half a century.") Although, thanks to the OCHS and its offshoot in New Rarha Desh, this seems to be increasingly less true with the passage of time. David Schultenover S.J. (Professor of History at Marquette University, U.S.A.) comments on the nature of the fear that led to this reaction: ...It largely reacted out of fear, very understandable...