Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak in tongues," possessed by the Apostles at the first Pentecost, has long been claimed by fundamentalist Protestant sects. In the last three years, glossolalia has also been tried out by a number of Lutheran and Episcopal churches in the Middle and Far West. Now 20 students in the secular, skeptical confines of Yale University report that they can pray in the spontaneous outpouring of syllables that sounds like utter babble to most listeners, but has a special meaning to the "gifted...
Talent Raids. Seminary officials feel that hundreds of potential ministers are sidetracked to secular fields that offer opportunities for service-the Peace Corps, for example. As a result, many divinity schools are now openly-and successfully -recruiting students of promise. Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena gets 200 inquiries a year in response to its evangelical ads in religious journals, has six part-time recruiters who tour campuses in search of potential ministers. The director of admissions at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary travels more than 5,000 miles a year visiting churches and colleges in the Southwest...
...courses (although Chicago's famed Moody Bible Institute still offers a two-year "pre-aviation" course for flying missionaries). The trend now is to systematic theology, Biblical criticism, New and Old Testament languages-and to a study of the most vital ideas found in modern secular thought. Princeton's Dr. Hugh Kerr uses jazz recordings and slides of modern art in his classroom discussions of religious symbolism. "There is no sense in showing a seminarian how to hold a baby for baptism-he'll learn that later," says Dean John Bowen Coburn of Episcopal Theological School...
...advance planning, POAU took cues from its longtime executive director, Methodist Lawyer Glenn L. Archer. "A new phenomenon has appeared in the secular life of the U.S.," said he. "It is the same phenomenon that has played a dominant, often sinister role in the life of many Latin states. Today, the church's secular power seeks to shape the policies of the state, the composition of governmental departments, and the appropriation of Government funds for Catholicism's private purposes." POAU geared to block various Catholic ambitions...
...Restoration England, a robustious culture surrounded the pious fortress of the church like a red satin garter on a maiden's thigh. Trapped inside the fortress all day, church composers slipped out at night to meet in taverns where, in naughty laughter, they celebrated secular gaiety by composing bawdy songs to one another. Now, three young singers who call themselves "The Catch Club" are running through a lighthearted repertory of the old songs, proving nicely that spicy jokes are almost ageless...