Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bishop of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese and, as head of the united German Evangelical Church, the primate of all German Protestants. Jailed by the Nazis and now denounced and threatened by the Communists, Bishop Dibelius is the foremost Protestant champion of the rights of the church against an aggressive secular state. He mans one of the church's most exposed positions against a Communist attack, which daily grows clearer and more severe. Three-quarters of the congregations in his diocese live behind the Iron Curtain. So do 40% of the 41.6 million German Protestants he represents...
...German empire, German Lutherans believed, was the God-blessed state of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers," Paul had said, "for there is no power but of God." Luther had explained this himself, saying: "We must firmly establish secular law and the sword, that no one may doubt that it is in the world by God's will and ordinance." This gave the state, in largely Protestant Germany, a formidable foundation...
...called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...
More chilling than the size of the prison empire he built, more terrible than the millions he sent to death or servitude, was the inexorable way he spread-with armies, intrigues and ideologies-a secular religion of evil that threatened every country and every people, every truth and every faith. His regime created slaves; more importantly, at home & abroad his ideology created willing servants...
...ideology of Communism which has inspired many men with intense loyalty and discipline-even distant Malayans in loincloths and atomic scientists in blue serge suits. This dogma, to most Western eyes, is a thick, grey, gummy paste, but it does cement. No secular government in history has allotted such importance to it as an ingredient of government...