Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court, Judge Moshe Silberg expressed deep sympathy for Father Daniel's desire to "identify himself with the people he loves," and suggested that the priest might still be considered a Jew as the term is understood in rabbinical courts. But the Law of Return, he added, is secular legislation, and must be interpreted according to secular principles: "The question is what is the ordinary Jewish meaning of the term Jew, and does it include an apostate...
...Sunday-school teacher, recalls A. V. Washburn of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, was: "You sit still while I instill." The modern version might be: "In God we trust that you'll adjust." Sunday schools still struggle, with varying success, to form religious people in a doggedly secular world, but the setting and philosophy are changing fast...
...remain a Godfearing nation. The security of all mankind, as of the Jew, is to be found in a world in which God rules and in which all men have a sense of living under his judgment. The temporary and superficial toleration that the Jew enjoys in a completely secular, Godless world is no more than skin-deep." For no matter how deplorable is the history of Christian persecutions of Jews, Wyschogrod concludes, "the danger that threatens us today in this country is not forcible conversion to Christianity. Our danger is secularism, the disappearance of the word...
Mumma reports that 40 of 100 persons whom he invited to teach a seminar expressed "a willingness and an eagerness" to handle such a project. Walter Grossman lecturer on History and Literature, is conducting a group "to see how basic theological concerns come up in modern secular literature," because, as he says, "I thought it would...
What the writers are concerned about is the role of Catholicism in a revolutionary age. Sister M. Louisette talks of the way in which Sisters are leaving the convent to take the intellectual pulse of the times in studies at Harvard and other secular institutions. Richard Barringer demands that the Church come to grips with the expectations of the new nations. John Tracy Ellis asks the Church to make greater use of the talents of the American laity. And so it goes. Behind each article lurks the image of conservative opposition. Every piece ends with hope for a brighter future...