Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps Jimmy Carter should read history instead of the Bible. As Henry Clay put it in 1818, all religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All separated from government are compatible with liberty. The Inauguration was an insult to secular America...
Henry finds secular philosophies inadequate not only because of logical weaknesses and unexamined presuppositions, but also because they do not take into account the breadth of human experience. Without revelation from God, he says, philosophers cannot prove their case for the dignity of mankind, nor can they provide any coherent basis for the truths and values to which people, religious or not, want to cling. In his view, the Bible offers the most comprehensive and satisfying explanation of "the meaning and worth of individual existence...
Modern theologians have been so overwhelmed by the onslaught of secular philosophies, Henry believes, that they have retreated into various forms of subjectivism to protect their claims of truth. One of Henry's major targets is the late Karl Earth, who thought that God could be known only through a mortal's inner decision and obedience. The result of such Christian existentialism has not been the protection of faith, Henry argues, but the "suicide of theology...
Thank you for your article on me and the ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ [Jan. 3]. In referring to my socalled right-wing political views, however, you are apparently parroting other secular publications which have not secured the facts...
...crucial political and spiritual crisis of her time into a point of devouring intensity. She shattered at the age of 34 attempting that most difficult of 20th century feats-living in the service of an absentee God. For her sufferings and self-denials, Weil has been canonized as a secular saint by contemporary intellectuals. This biography, by her friend and academic colleague Simone Pétrement, should ward off potential devil's advocates. It reveals Weil not only as a unique intellect whose thought spanned thousands of years and many cultures but also as a child of her time...