Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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UNABLE TO DEAL with his son's apparent insanity, Francis' father drags him before the bishop, a portly libertine who cares more about his lunch and his feud with the secular power of the local governor than about the ravings of a boy with a holy mission. His admonitions to refrain from "subverting the established order" ring as hollow as a parody of a dime-store dictator...
Correspondent Burton Pines visited Jesuit universities throughout the Midwest. There, young priests in turtlenecks and Levi's discussed their concern with the order's role in the secular community, while older priests, sitting in book-cluttered offices, worried over the relaxation of Jesuit discipline. "Most were delightfully irreverent toward the papacy and church hierarchy," reports Pines. "Their intellectual self-confidence, plus their legendary commitment to logical, rational thought, made every conversation with the Jesuits a heady trip, leaving me with a genuine high...
...examines what may be the beginning of a pendulum swing away from liberalism, rationalism and scientism. In the first part of the series, TIME'S Behavior section discussed "the rediscovery of human nature" by behavioral scientists. In the second, the Religion section considered the decline of interest in secular problems and the renewed search for the sacred. This week the Education section examines recent reappraisals of some of the purposes, methods and results of schooling...
...infinitely educable. To Rousseau, education made men good, and through them made society better. But for the most part in England and France those notions remained only ideals, kept from fulfillment by the twin barriers of social class and privilege. In the New World, however, they flowered into a secular religion. Ragged immigrants were supposed to be molded into Americans through their education, which provided even the poorest child with the opportunity, in theory, for a rich and happy life...
...liberal, optimistic vision of the secular city and of the human race was at odds with a growing undercurrent of disillusion about man's ability to transform either himself or his world. A Teilhard de Chardin might confidently view man's physical and spiritual evolution in the new scientific world as a limitless upward spiral, but Hitler and Hiroshima suggested that the spiral could also spin downward into new dimensions of evil...