A thing of recent date, esp. a usage, method, or characteristic of present times.

现代的事物(如习尚、方法、思想、语法等)。

Theological method based on modern scholarship, which attempts to reconcile the church dogmas with modern science and philosophy, and with modern Biblical criticism; condemned by Pope Pius X in 1907.

【宗】(罗马天主教之)现代主义(以现代之科学、哲学及对圣经之批判来重释教义的理论，于1907年为教皇比乌斯十世所禁)。

Liberal theological movement of the 20th century in Protestantism.

(二十女纪新教之)现代化运动。