Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foremost in the growing ranks of anti-Catholics who betray their religious inferiority complex by blindly condemning the church's dogma of infallibility. Rather than attempt to disprove this claim, the editor prefers to disqualify this assertion by simply stating it cannot be true . . . The amalgamation of quasi-secular interests and ministerial tea parties which he prefers leads to chaos simplified-the dilemma of the Protestant churches today. By the way, I'm a non-Catholic...
From Tibet came word that the Dalai Lama, 19, whose country was grabbed by China's Communists in 1951, had departed his capital city of Lhasa to journey a long, sad way to Peking, where his secular masters will presumably try to enlighten the priest-king about the joys of cooperation with their regime. His brainwashing is expected to require from six to ten months...
...silly, thinks Niebuhr, to advertise Christianity by insisting on what, to the secular-minded, will seem "fantastic," i.e., the Second Coming. "The New Testament eschatology is at once too naive for a sophisticated world and too sophisticated for the simple-minded modern man, who has become so accustomed to trying to make sense out of life by measuring history in terms of some scheme of rational intelligibility . . . While the present seems a very strategic era in which to restore a part of the New Testament faith which had become discredited and obscured, we need only to analyze the needs...
...been accorded it in generations. Membership in U.S. churches has risen almost 70% in a generation, outstripping the population increase by 2 to 1. Bestseller lists are crowded month after month with books with religious themes. The seminaries are crowded with the kind of young men the secular world competes...
...Phillips Brooks House Buck stated that after investigating Brooks House for a number of years, he and his committee had concluded that a religious man should be placed in a direct supervisory position. This person was to provide an element of religious guidance while "still maintaining the traditional Harvard secular approach...