Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other hand, he added, some religious persons are suspicious enough of the secular university to believe that an organization like the Fellowship can "do no more than save a few souls from the encompassing holocaust...
...very idea of a secular realm is a Christian notion; saecula, or age, rests on the Biblical doctrine of the Creation as having a provisional independence over against the God Who created it. In the Christian revelation, a new saecula has dawned, which shows us what this world...
...throng in London's St. Paul's Cathedral had come to hear another voice. Too big for his brown suit, Baritone Paul Robeson began with pix Crossing Over Jordan, sent a series of wild melodies booming through the cathedral in the first recital of secular songs in the history of St. Paul's. Afterward, many of the congregation of 4,000 pressed around the American Negro to thank him. "What a great occasion," said Canon Collins. "He gave his voice to the glory of God." Communist Robeson smiled benignly...
When the church fails to raise up prophets, McCord feels, the world raises them up. Who are such secular prophets? Dostoevsky, in Crime and Punishment (but not Tolstoy-"there was too much sweetness and light about him"). Also Novelist Albert Camus, especially in his latest book, The Fall ("I think Camus is on a pilgrimage and he hasn't arrived"). Oddly, Theologian McCord also includes Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. If anyone criticizes such literary judgments, McCord has an answer: "I think the first thing the Lord requires of us is honesty. He requires you to be honest before...
...philosophers whose speculations might carry them away from the dogmas of -the church and the formal system of thought laid down by St. Thomas Aquinas. ¶ NATIONALISM. Pope Pius laid claim once more to the church's status as the supranational community, nourishing the shallow roots of secular internationalism ("The Church is a mother - Sancta Mater Ecclesia-a true mother, mother of all nations and all peoples"). As he saw the colonial peoples rise, he laid increasing stress on substituting native priests for missionaries-and promoting them to bishops wherever possible...