Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...writer, a Baptist, is professor of divinity at Harvard and author of The Secular City...
...season for churches to concentrate fully on their spiritual mission, putting aside secular concerns. Yet for many congregations, the world is too much with them, and even Christmas provides no respite...
...Palestinians everywhere, including those in the Israeli-occupied Gaza and West Bank. They listened hi cold fury as Yasser Arafat at the United Nations (TIME, Nov. 25) purportedly offered them an "olive branch" -but budged n6t an inch from his position that Israel must be replaced by a secular Palestinian state for both Arabs and Jews. The Bet She'an raid chillingly reinforced the conviction of most Israelis that there is no hope of compromise with the fedayeen groups. At the U.N., a spokesman for the P.L.O. -whose ranks include the group that made the raid...
...real progress can be made unless both sides come to terms with these realities. This means that the P.L.O. will have to abandon its stated goal of a "democratic-secular state between the Jordan and the Sinai"--which is simply a codeword for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with another Arab state. Israel will have to abandon its claim that Palestinians already have a homeland in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. And Arab governments should support negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in which both sides recognize each other's right to exist. Each party should pledge...
...those who waited for Arafat to offer some new accommodation toward negotiation, the P.L.O. leader's "most generous solution" was a disappointment. Echoing many previous public statements, Arafat proposed to create a new secular democratic state of Palestine in which Christians, Jews and Moslems could live together in peace. That proposal implicitly requires the dissolution of Israel, which goes against a long series of United Nations and other international affirmations...