Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the war. when Greece tried to grab off large chunks of defeated Turkey, Gursel joined the forces of the late great Kemal Ataturk, helped to expel the Greek armies and to convert Turkey from an Islamic sultanate to a secular republic...
...varied Christian insights, including above all the view that the Christian must not withdraw from the world, but must live in it fully, with his faith. In the words of a new book* about Bonhoeffer, he "challenged the church to rethink its own mission to the radically secular world of the 20th century...
...number 27,372, up from 9,669 in 1925. They have been concentrating on training a native clergy. Protestants concentrate on education, medical training and evangelism, are only beginning to set up seminaries to train native ministers; in the Congo they currently have four, compared to 9,400 secular schools. Islam is making important strides in central Africa-partly because it is not associated with colonial whites, partly because it permits polygamy (many a Christian missionary is beginning to talk about admitting polygamous families to something called "associate membership...
Brushing aside all such details, Conservative Lutheran Pelikan gives his answer in the form of a blast at the questions themselves. They are, says he, symptoms of a kind of militant, secular liberalism that would homogenize religion in the U.S. The questions indicate a confusion that identifies " 'the American way of life' as a religion, the national temple under whose broad roof various shrines -Protestant, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox-may be permitted to worship so long as they acknowledge themselves to be sects or parties within the one state Shinto...
Archbishop Lardone was finding conditions considerably improved since Cardinal Isidore's hasty departure. Turkey, since Ataturk, is a secular state. And Gennadius' successor, the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I, who once made his headquarters in Manhattan as Greek Orthodox primate for North and South America, is a lot more approachable on church reunion than was Gennadius. Both Athenagoras and Lardone became American citizens during their U.S. stay; though the Treaty of Lausanne required Athenagoras to become a Turk again on his election as Patriarch...