Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists have organized a decent kind of materialism in which poverty can be abolished, and have combined their secular order with Chrisitan decency. But Swedish life is controlled and regulated to a degree difficult for an American to imagine; not that these people are not free, but they have a polite and padded kind of freedom. This is the doing not only of the Socialists; Conservatives and businessmen talk a great deal about the need for more individual initiative, but none of them seems willing to fight hard...
...greatest works of secular art are darkness beside what faith and art, working together, can accomplish. Faith shines through the Chartres windows as serenely as sunlight. To see them is to give thanks that faith, like sunlight, forever returns to mankind...
Recently, the Forum incurred the anger of the Catholic Church for scheduling Paul Blanchard as a speaker. Blanchard, author of "American Freedom and Catholic Power," is a bitter opponent of the Church's secular policies, and after the appeared here, several Churches turned down invitations from the Forum...
...Economics at California's Mills College (for women), Economist Hedley has explained Adam Smith to eleven classes of Mills girls. As college chaplain, Methodist Hedley packs Sunday services with his wise and scholarly preaching. But he is impatient with student intellectuals, left or right, who respect his secular scholarship while looking down on his religious beliefs. Last week, in a book called Superstitions of the Irreligious (Macmillan; $2.50), he chucked a few stones at his irreligious friends' "glass houses of preconception and prejudgment...
...most significant facts about the younger generation is that increasingly larger numbers of it are seeking their faith not in secular panaceas...