RICHARD ROSENTHAL
- Moritz Spitz in Jewish Voice, Oct. 17, 1890 quoted in Central Conference of American Rabbis Yearbook 1892, p. 123.
. William Hutchinson characterizes Protestant modernism by three things: adaptation of religious ideas to modern culture, God immanent in human development and revealed through it, and progression to the realization of the Kingdom of God; The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism, Oxford 1976, p. 2. This is a perfect description of the Pittsburgh Platform.
. Authentic Report of the Proceedings of the Rabbinical Conference held at Pittsburgh , Nov. 16, 17, 18, 1885 reprinted in Walter Jacob (ed.) The Changing World of Reform Judaism, Pittsburgh , 1985, p. 101.