Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spirit. Modern critics, following Protestant scholars of the igth century, have praised Luther because he "liberated the spirit" of science, "by freeing all areas of life from the supreme authority of the church." This compliment, says Bishop Lilje, "is probably undeserved." It comes principally from the wishful thinking of secular scholars who thought Luther felt the same way about religion as they...
...soprano and chamber orchestra. It was a taxing assignment for the soloist and Miss Lunn showed signs of strain near the end of the program. Her voice is by no means powerful and her approach to the music is restrained and undramatic. The opening of the secular cantata Weichet ner, betrubte Schatten, for example, dragged on quite feebly and missed altogether the suggestion of mysterious forces of nature at work during the changing of the seasons...
...orthodox and unspectacular lines, reflecting his strict Lutheran background in eastern Germany. After four years as a German army chaplain in World War 1, he came home to find his country in the midst of a deep revolution, cultural as well as political. The revolutionary trends were socialist and secular. To his dismay, young Pastor Tillich found that German Lutheranism made little attempt to understand these trends or to interpret them in a religious framework...
Tillich-by then a philosophy professor at the University of Berlin-helped start a short-lived Christian socialist movement: an attempt at a "reunion of religion and secular culture." The effort failed, but in planning it Tillich laid the cornerstone of his later philosophy: "Religion is the substance of culture, and culture the form of religion...
...distinctive witness God expects us to bear? How shall we bear it? ... A church which concentrates on its own existence is doomed from the start. It will never see beyond itself. A church which speaks of nothing except religion in the narrow, technical sense has no mission to the secular world. God is concerned, in this world, that 'earth shall be fair, and all its people...