Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing as good a job as is Professor Cleland in teaching the art of preaching to young ministers." But Cleland's ministry does not end there. His door is always open to everyone asking advice, and many do. And he is constantly sought after to speak to secular groups; he is booked up for commencement addresses for the next five years...
...Religion, I mean Sobriety, Righteousness and Godliness." For over a century, Harvard students had worshipped in private, until 1744 when Samuel Holden left 400 pounds "to build a Chapple for the use of ye College." But after just twenty years, services moved to Harvard Hall and Holden began its secular marathon...
...respecter of persons nor a mincer of words. Once, when the late Queen Mary commented on the beauty of a service at St. Paul's, the Dean replied: "I assure you, Ma'am, I find it most irksome." As for the church, it was "only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted...
...only a defense but a definition. "We are," says he, "against fundamentalism of all kinds . . . and all kinds of mean-minded thinking that would make man less than he is." But to this he adds: "Most particularly, we are not ready to fall into the popular, new kind of secular fundamentalism which sees man as a kind of social animal without any religious or spiritual dimension whatsoever...
...fifth of eight children of a wealthy Lyons silk manufacturer, Henri Antoine Grouès at 18 signed his inheritance over to charity and entered a Capuchin monastery. Eight years later tuberculosis forced him to give up the rigors of monastic life, and he was assigned as a secular priest to the diocese of Grenoble...