Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undoubtedly, the new appointee is quite competent, and his long record of social service bespeaks a devotion to the secular activities of PBH. But it difficult to see how his position as an embryonic cleric can fail to inject a religious element into the organization. And with PBH's hymn-singing days far behind, such an element would be undesirable because Brooks House's function is now to offer opportunities for social service along secular lines. Heading this institution with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extracurricular activities. Further, a divinity school...
...garb of poverty-a homespun dhoti and cheap brown canvas sneakers-but lighted by a flame of authority that has made him one of India's most notable spiritual leaders. His name is Vinoba Bhave (pronounced bah vay). He has no place in the government or any other secular organization; he is what Hindus call an acharya (preceptor). Only a land with holy cities, sacred rivers and thin margins between want and plenty could have produced frail (5 ft. 4 in., 86 Ibs.), ascetic Vinoba Bhave. In two years he has become such a power in India that only...
...plethora of gods, false gods with no effective challenge from the true, Christian Deity. With Christianity under the wing of a lame-duck Department of Religion, under no formal wing at all, or ludicrously capsuled in the binge of a "Religious Emphasis Week," the field is abandoned to haloed secular gods, like relativism, materialism, and "scientism." In Campus Gods on Trial, Walsh tries to prove the inadequacy of the varied isms as philosophies of life and, more important, to answer the criticisms of Christianity which the isms breed...
...pastors and not just preachers, to lead the church into all the concerns of public life. And he warned bluntly that the church must raise its necessary funds from the free-will contributions of its parishioners-no longer through the tax collectors of a state that was now avowedly secular...
...judges democracies, American and European, by the standards of a nostalgic monarchist, and thereby misses a major point, i.e., that the philosophic basis of U.S. democracy is the equality of all men before God. But his warnings on the dangers of the secular state are nonetheless sound and sober...