Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great literature, secular and religious, is often the basis for blather...
Probably no one has been more concerned with the role of religion in a secular university than President Pusey. In his Divinity School address in 1953 and his Baccalaureate sermons, Pusey has stressed that the twentieth century has destroyed earlier illusions about man's nature, that the Christian psychology provides better comprehension of the nature of man than did nineteenth century liberalism. President Pusey is evidently a sincerely devout man; and with the issue of faith so important in his own thinking, resolving the tensions between the role of a secular university embracing diverse beliefs and what he believes...
...President Pusey turned to the problem of secularism and tried to resolve the conflict between what he saw as the deleterious elements of secularism and the fact that Harvard was a secular university. Pusey clarified, "There can be no quarrel in a university with secularism itself, but only with it as it comes hubristically in its turn to pretend to speak for the whole of life." For Pusey, therefore, there is no absolute resolution of the dichotomy, but rather a balancing of religious and secular forces, each of which has its proper role in the University's tradition...
Moreover, there is not even a simple dichotomy between secular and religious forces in the University. For Harvard itself is based on a faith--summed up by the term Liberal Education--which is in potential conflict with other faiths. Perhaps at Harvard more than any other school the belief in liberal education is inculcated; however, its tenets are seldom recognized as the credo of a faith, which rests on assumptions as unprovable as any other faith. Knowledge through scholarship is justified and constant questioning become the chief paths to this summum bonum. There are of course all the institutional trappings...
...which of the following sexual practices do you disapprove because of your religious beliefs; i.e. do you find them objectionable not on secular grounds, but because of beliefs about God's commandments? (Disapprove-do not disapprove...