Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scyllaberg & Charybditsky. Proud as they are of their university, U.S. Jews are still unsure of what Brandeis is fundamentally supposed to be in the religious sense. When first broached, the idea of a secular Jewish school caused headshaking among Jewry's three basic factions. "For the Orthodox, we weren't Jewish enough," recalls Dean Berger. "For the Reformed, we were too Jewish. Just to get the support of the Conservatives, we had to steer a course between Scyllaberg and Charybditsky...
...government of the church, which first took shape under strong-minded Pope Sixtus V in 1588, consists of twelve congregations-ministries would be the secular equivalent-three tribunals, five other offices. They handle every church problem from heresies to legitimatizing births. Among its most significant branches...
...Blood of the Lamb, by Peter De Vries. Humorist De Vries continues to deal with absurdity, but in this bitter novel of a man's progress from religious to secular faith, absurdity is of the existential kind: life is a joke, and a bad one at that...
...education, McCormack explained that while he would vote for a bill which provided federal funds only for public schools, he would also support a measure which included aid to parochial schools, if the money went for secular teaching...
Congdon still likes the technical beauty of his secular works, but feels there is "a whole new space, life and breath of spirit in my paintings now." As a Christian and an artist, he is aware of the danger that he might confuse the "religious subjects" to which he is drawn for the direct experience and personal vision that can be the only legitimate subject for a work of art. But as an abstract painter, he is appalled at the emptiness and formality of most modern art. "It is the purest materialism," he argues. "My painting seems more important than...