Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the publication of Insight, Lonergan has been absorbed in the question of intellectual method, particularly for the theologian. He believes that Christianity is essentially a historical religion, borrowing many of its concepts from secular disciplines. The development of theology demands both an adherence to the truths of the past and a transformation in light of new scientific ideas about what science is, post-Freudian insights into the nature of the psyche, changing ideas of the nature of history...
Founded by a group of Cambridge University undergraduates in 1877, the fellowship organized an American branch in 1940. There are now chapters on 800 U.S. campuses, most of them secular rather than church-related, and within the last four years membership has doubled. Between Christmas and New Year's Day more than 7,000 students gave up part of their vacation to gather on the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois for the largest meeting in the fellowship's history, whose threefold theme summed up the students' conservative Christian zeal: "Change Unparalleled, Witness Unashamed, Triumph...
Inter-Varsity aims to keep alive the youthful faith of young Christians on secular campuses, introduce the nominal believer to the "living personality" of Jesus, and persuade at least a few chapter members to join foreign missions. The fellowship has a full-time adult staff of 105, including 70 traveling "coaches" who help out the individual chapters. Members usually meet once a week for prayer and Bible study, spend many of their off-duty hours trying to convert fellow students. At the University of Illinois, for example, the Inter-Varsity chapter sends a welcoming letter to freshmen, sponsors lectures...
...PROMISED LAND, went the headline above the Courier's editorial assessment of the President's message: "One is constrained to believe that the land in deed is promised, and the leader is worthy." In Chicago the Tribune was moved too-but in an opposite direction. "The secular savior is to take us over," said the Tribune, "and give us the bum's rush up the road to his conception of the Great Society." Between these two extremes, the editorialists found ample room for disagreement. But whether they cheered Johnson's sweeping blueprint or worried about...
...Again you are one up on all those religious "trade publications." You miss the obvious conclusion, however. God himself is producing this age referred to as "secular...