Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most part, these intellectuals have confined their criticism of liberals to the secular area. Andrew Greeley, the Chicago priest-sociologist who is proud to be an Irishman and a friend of Mayor Daley's, has broadened the attack to the religious front. "Let us be clear at the beginning: this is a volume of dissent," he says in Unsecular Man. "It rejects most of the conventional wisdom about the contemporary religious situation." The conventional wisdom he rejects is the "pop-sociological-religious analysis which has become part of the American intellectual preconscious...
Perhaps it was. Although Jesus is mentioned only in the title-presumably for shock value-the central character is "the man on a cross." But the real target of Kenan's satire was the quality of life in modern secular Israel and particularly its all-pervading militarism. That, the author claims, is the real reason why his revue was banned from the stage...
...century, when this interpretation was most popular, many Christians felt that they were already in the Millennium. World history since then has convinced most of them otherwise, but a kind of modern Post-Millennialism has recurred among a few theologians who foresee mankind moving toward an era of greater secular perfection...
...sentence: God be kind to all Good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the Kingdom of Heaven. Not much new there, one may argue. And in fact it is a kind of repetition, for the novel begins with a more secular version of the same message, from the I Ching: The earth in its devotion carries all things, good and evil, with out exception. The trick, of course, is to retrieve such knowledge from abstraction, to release it from the prison of rhetoric and piety, until it seems to grow out of, and even faintly encompass, the pain...
John Kennedy, according to both Wills and Cox, was the Secular City man par excellence. He was tough and grappled with problems without any ideological preconceptions. We know now that the problem with the Secular City, anti-ideological approach was its lack of any firm moral underpinnings...