Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protestant problems to Catholics. A talented writer (he has published some first-rate reminiscences in The New Yorker}, Brown shares with his old teacher Reinhold Niebuhr an interest in trying to make theology relevant to the solution of contemporary social problems. One motive in moving to a secular campus is to help bring theological excitement to the parish and nonseminary world; yet Brown believes that theologians should not take themselves too seriously: "There is something demonic in people who have God under their belt." He also believes that religious thinkers should follow their Christian convictions into action; last July...
...find your analogy of the Christian Faith and Life Community at Austin, Texas, to the Newman Club an obvious incongruity. The Newman Club, attempting to provide a balanced spiritual, intellectual and social program for its 50,000 members on 850 secular campuses, is hardly comparable to the isolated radical group covered in your article...
...years ago started him on the theological career that has taken him to the top rank of Protestantism (TIME cover, April 20), had a new message for the U.S. Everyone was aware that Barth has long faulted the West for being as materialistic as the Communists and-worse-cloaking secular ambitions in religion. Said he now to the American theologians: "If I were myself an American citizen and a Christian and a theologian, I would look at that liberty statue in New York harbor. She needs a little or a good bit of demythologizing-nevertheless, she may also be seen...
...leaders of the group consider themselves to be "in the middle of the Christian tradition." How to Be a Layman. Now ten years old, Austin's community is a radical Protestant version of the Catholic Newman clubs, which serve to provide guidance to Roman Catholic students at secular colleges across the country. The goal is to train students to become active Christian laymen as thoroughly as the university trains them for worldly careers. Each year as many as 100 students (including a few Negroes) sign up to live within the community's two residence halls. They...
President Sachar opts for a secular school "no more Jewish than Princeton is Presbyterian." He well knows that his students "bring a bias with them. It's not exactly anti-God. It's anticlerical." In fact, the Hillel Foundation at Brandeis has only 50 or 60 members, and only the Catholic chapel gets much attendance. Says one senior: "Most students feel that religion is-well, somehow beneath them...