Word: laxer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even simple rules like those can be difficult to enforce, though. Lesley, a small teachers' college for women, has trouble enforcing any rules more stringent than those of its larger, laxer neighbor Harvard, Williams says. "Harvard can get away with anything it wants. We're smaller, we can't," she adds. "And yet, if we were way off in the sticks, a lot of our policies would be considered very liberal...
...contraception draws from, among other things, the Old Testament command to "be fruitful and multiply" and the need to justify marriage to early Christians in the face of attacks by otherworldly heretics. But contraception did not become a serious issue until the 20th century, when improved techniques-and laxer morals-led to widespread use of birth control devices. By 1930 the Anglican Church hierarchy at the Lambeth Conference reluctantly accepted birth control. Reacting to this, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting...
...Today (circ. 118,000), the movement's most influential journal. True Evangelicals must believe that the Bible is completely error-proof or "inerrant," writes Lindsell, not only on doctrine and morals but on every detail of history and science. U.S. Evangelicalism, he warns, is being dangerously "infiltrated" by laxer views...