The distinctive character of modernism was the same indeterminacy of its program. It did not affect a particular point of official discipline.

— Ernesto Buonaiuti

Il carattere distintivo del modernismo fu la stessa indeterminatezza del suo programma. Esso non investì un punto particolare della disciplina ufficiale.

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Storia del cristianesimo, III, p. 618.

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Per il fatto stesso della sua esistenza il pelagianesimo s'inscrive in falso contro sé medesimo; perché, nella sua essenza e nei suoi connotati, esso costituisce la riprova apodittica della perversione organica e funzionale dell'uomo.

The Ireland of to-day feels acutely that the springs of her greatness lie in the past, and that by restoring ancestral traditions, blending them naturally with existing social forms, and by drawing strength and dignity from the memories of pre-Christian and medieval Ireland, before the Anglo-Norman had deformed and strangled her, she may yet discover her true self, and start life afresh.

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The distinctive character of modernism was the same indeterminacy of its program. It did not affect a particular point of official discipline.

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