Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roman Catholics who find Catholic colleges too weak in scholarship and secular colleges too shy of religion, a lively campus in Canada beckons with a rare formula for the "best of both worlds." St. Michael's College, which has 1,260 Catholic students, 15% of them American, is run by the Basilian Fathers. Yet it is integrated with the tax-supported University of Toronto (17,000 students), a federation of five Oxford-style colleges. As a result, coed "St. Mike's" offers the intellectual stimulus and ample curriculum of a major secular university plus the religious spirit...
What forged this friendly setup was a 19th century custody battle over the infant University of Toronto, which both secular and religious educators wanted to run. As a compromise, the Ontario legislature put in a nonsectarian administration to control degrees and the teaching of "university" subjects, mostly science. Sectarian colleges were then invited to join and teach "college" subjects, mostly humanities. St. Michael's in 1887 became the first to join...
Heschel first turned to the study of the prophets as a university student, when he was repelled by the aridity of contemporary philosophy. He has since spent most of his energies defending "the intellectual relevance of the Bible." Heschel argues that the secular disciplines of philosophy or science are no help to man in solving the ultimate riddles of life. "Marx and Freud are interesting," he says, "but in extreme situations, such as in dealing with good and evil, do they lead anywhere? Science presupposes a certain aspect of being, but is it the ultimate?" Heschel answers no, and says...
Outranked Concerns. By launching singlehanded a revolution whose sweep and loftiness have caused it to outrank the secular concerns of the year, Pope John created history in a different dimension from that of the most dramatic head line of the year. President Kennedy's victory over the Russian missile threat in Cuba was both an embarrassing retreat for Khrushchev and a cold war turning point; it showed that a resolute U.S., willing to use its mighty arms, can maintain the initiative in the cold...
Finaly, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, deml-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his acclaimed performance at the Cloisters; Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...