Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moses. No Christian in the land could have less deserved these attacks than Dr. Buttrick, for Dr. Buttrick is as tolerant in his personal relations as he is eloquent in the pulpit. But behind the "Mem Church" uproar lay a deeper issue that divided a university with a strong secular tradition, fostered, among other Harvard presidents, by Unitarian Charles W. Eliot (1869-1909), Unitarian Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1909-1933), Scientist James B. Conant (1933-1953). The issue, whose significance goes far beyond Harvard: How religious can a secular university...
...Secular Paradise. The disparity of faiths and backgrounds that makes it hard for Harvard students to worship together, said President Pusey in his baccalaureate speech, "promises to grow worse rather than better in the years to come." But religion in a secular university confronts a far more significant difficulty: "the advance of secularization." Despite academically polite language, Pusey took a sharply critical look at this "way of life which . . . proceeds deliberately without concern for religion." So great have been the successes of secularism that it "has itself become a faith and raised a hope that man can through...
...Most Important. But it does matter, Pusey insists. The most important questions are not the secular ones, but "the questions which religion answers for her believers by supplying meaning to life, by kindling hope, and by giving through faith in God a basis for ethical behavior...
...with the Christian concept of a loving and forgiving God has been a perennial difficulty. In the Roman Catholic quarterly, Thought, Fordham University's Assistant Professor Robert W. Gleason, S.J., investigates Satan's kingdom in the light of modern thought. Says Theologian Gleason: "A combination of sentimentality, secular humanism and determinism have produced their own bitter fruit ... It is no longer generally believed, to put the matter bluntly, that man is capable of choices that could bring him to eternal death." There is the additional difficulty of specific references to fire. "To many it appears that...
Religiously, Putney is a secular school. There is no chapel. On Sunday evening a speaker discusses questions dealing with religion, ethics, or philosophy, but there is little mention of formal religion or God. Skepticism prevails, and faith is not considered a part of life by most of the student body...