Word: secularistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kristol's view, the chief causes of this pervading nihilism have been the spread of higher education and of mass media as well as the long team effect of the secularist, positivist philosophy that emerged in the seventeenth century. Higher education since World War II has created a large class of academics and self-proclaimed intellectuals who readily make authoritative pronouncements in areas of public policy in which they have only marginal competence. This vocal sector has a tendency to judge a specific issue not by its individual merits, but solely in the light of certain fashionable general ideas...
...suspicious secularist would be reassured by Buechner's working habits. He lives in a comfortable white frame house on an unfarmed farm in southern Vermont. For discipline, the author knots on a necktie and travels a few miles to an office in the parish house of the Manchester Episcopal Church. For three months last winter, when the church was without a regular pastor, he preached the Sunday sermons. He feels sure that none of his temporary parishioners, most of whom are elderly women, has read a line of his fiction...