Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...really is not surprising that the most theologically liberal of the South African Dutch Reformed churches should take the hardest line on race [Jan. 1]. Liberal churches have always allowed secular society rather than Scripture to set their agenda and vision. Thus liberal denominations in South Africa seek to conform to their culture while the more Bible-based groups do not. The Bible says that all men are created in God's image and that all are sinners in need of regeneration. Therefore no race or class is better than any other, and equality should reign...
...seek an abortion if they already had as many children as they could support. The suit further argues that the law represents an unconstitutional "establishment of religion," because it implicitly accepts the particular view of pro-life religious groups on the value of the human fetus and lacks the "secular purpose" the Supreme Court has required in such laws...
...four churches. The white church, at its quadrennial synod a few weeks later, flatly rejected any accommodation to its nonwhite Reformed Christians. (The obvious fear: the church might gradually integrate at regional and local levels, and also lay the moral grounds for giving blacks a say in secular government.) The delegates also rejected a suggestion that they rename the nonwhite factions "sister" rather than "daughter" churches. The synod elected as the church's new moderator E.P.J. Kleynhans, who believes that church integration is an "indefensible policy" and takes pride that the church has been "a century ahead...
...majority of the nation's private schools are religious schools, some of which limit enrollment on the basis of belief; as a result, religious organizations were particularly worried about the plan. But so were many secular private schools, which were sure to perish if their tax exemptions were withdrawn. More than 120,000 letters, most expressing vitriolic opposition to the plan, descended on the IRS after the proposal was announced...
...this secular age, God is not very popular among composers. One notable exception is Krzysztof Penderecki, 45, a Polish Roman Catholic. He has written a St. Luke's Passion (1966), Dies Irae, an oratorio for the victims at Auschwitz (1967) and a Magnificat (1974). For the past four years, Penderecki (pronounced Pen-de-ret-ski) has labored on a huge, lofty project: recasting Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost, into an opera. But last week, in its world premiere at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Penderecki's huge effort failed to justify the ways...