Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...touches the very being of a man, but Bill Congdon has been more deeply affected by new faith than most. Nowhere is the transformation more visible than in his painting, which is as abstract as it was before his conversion but is devoted now to religious themes. Admired by secular critics, Congdon's recent work, which last week went on display at the Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan, is praised even more by such Catholic intellectuals as Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Jesuit Theologian Martin D'Arcy and Author Thomas Merton. "Here," writes Merton, a Trappist monk in Kentucky...
...this life, and to be happy with Him forever in the next." In the Catholic view, education is thus committed to "total truth"-moral, religious and intellectual. Unlike secularists, Catholics cannot divide reason and revelation into tidy compartments; each informs and reinforces the other. "The hell of secular society unredeemed by Christianity," said St. Augustine, "is not even capable of improvement." Summed up Pope Pius XI: "There can be no true education which is not wholly directed to man's last...
This is well below the 650-750 range on secular "prestige" campuses, but significantly rising. The Ford Foundation in 1960 gave Notre Dame the honor, as one of five rapidly improving universities (none other Catholic), of receiving $6,000,000 in no-strings grants...
...world where most academic endeavor concerns only natural truth, as much separated from supernatural truth, the divine wisdom of theology, as sinful man was separated from God before the Incarnation. If these extremes are to be united, a work of mediation is needed. We must somehow match secular or state universities in their comprehension of a vast spectrum of natural truths in the arts and sciences, while at the same time we must be in full possession of our own true heritage of theological wisdom...
...Secular Mood. Presbyterian Charles West, who teaches Christian ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary, argues that Morgan has improperly defined the age: it is more post-ideology than post-Christian. "It is not just theologically integrated Christian assumptions which are being questioned by the modern secular mood, but all religions, and even all ideological attempts to give meaning to reality as a whole and man's destiny In it. Salvation by Psychoanalysis, Communism and Existentialism are all fighting the same battle for survival today alongside the remnants of the corpus christianum against the postreligious world...