Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such a dramatic rendering of Frye's presence at Harvard betrays the theories he elaborated in his Norton lectures, if should convey at least a small portion of their urgency. Their central subject, Romance, is what Frye means when he refers to "secular scripture." Spencer's The Faerie Queen, Sir Walter Scott's novels, such as Ivanhoe and Redgauntlet, and the fantasies of William Morris, such as Earthly Paradise and New From Nowhere, are some of the more important works of Romance, which broadly speaking, is the literary development of formulas rooted in folklore. Romance is called secular scripture...
There are 3 million Palestinians and 3 million Israelis; these two peoples should coexist within a secular democratic society [in Palestine]. The question is how and in what form...
...Dictionary of Misinformation is in the tradition of Mencken's American Credo, a mocking collage of secular gospel. Examples...
...British cleric from a community near Heathrow who appeared at last week's hearing put it more poetically. "Concorde's noise is unbearable, above the threshold of pain," testified the Rev. Hugh Montifiore. "It is not hell, because hell goes on forever. It is more like a secular form of purgatory, or a gall-bladder attack that comes and goes...
...last sounds like an echo of the liberal Protestant bible of the mid-1960s, The Secular City, it is no coincidence. The best-known member of the Boston group is that book's author, Harvey Cox of Harvard Divinity School, who joined the other signers in the scruffy B.I.M. office to celebrate the "Affirmations" with a liturgy and a lunch of jug Burgundy and ham-and-cheese sandwiches. Besides Cox, the task force included Black Theologian Preston Williams of Harvard, a Chicane theologian from California, a local pastor laden with preliminary documents for the World Council of Churches assembly...