Word: religionless
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...works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
...used in widely different ways, and its very vagueness tends greatly to diminish the value of their conclusions. The writers of Vekhi defined the intelligentsia not in terms of the level or nature of their education but according to their ideology. They were a sort of new, religionless, humanist order...
...done it again. He has succeeded in taking another picture of the world scene-this time not Secular, but Sacred. Like Freud, he doesn't miss a thing going on in the field of view. Heavily influenced by Bonhoeffer in his Secular City, he presented a view of "religionless religion" which both encapsulated the disparate commentaries of theologians and sociologists, at the same time that it infuriated many in the same scenes. This time he mines several veins and comes up with another theological mother lode. The Divinity School on Francis Ave. will again pack them in to pay homage...
...modern theological thought, Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society in the Divinity School said yesterday, because of his affirmative view of the secular elements of society. He tantalizes present-day theologians because he died before he was able to explain some of his phrases, such as "religionless Christianity...
...lecture the Archbishop, who was once a professor of Divinity at Durham University, examined three species of the "death of God talk." First he attacked the notion that God--primarily concerned with religion and piety--is dead. "No such God ever existed," Archbishop Ramsey declared. "Religionless Christianity is now the spiritual reality...