Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pointing out that there has been an increasing interest in theological matters, Conant discussed the place of religion in a secular society. "The problem is most clearly seen if one examines the question of our schools and colleges as instruments for transmitting the moral and spiritual values inherent in our American traditions," he said...
...every fortnight or so drops by to visit his distinguished cousin Albert. Last year the Princeton University Press published the three-volume book he has been working toward for over 30 years, The Italian Madrigal, which not only is the definitive work on 16th and early 17th Century Italian secular music but a historical study of Renaissance Italy as well...
...Jewish life." Though there are nearly 5,000,000 U.S. Jews, no more than 1,500,000-less than a third-"have even the remotest connection with the synagogue." And most of these, says Herberg, find the center of their interest as Jews not in religious but in secular concerns such as "Zionism, labor unionism, philanthropy, social service, 'anti-defamation.' . . . Religion is, in fact, often regarded as a kind of leisure-time supplemental activity, and the synagogue as something you belong to because you 'happen...
Those who think the Jewish community can be rebuilt on a secular rather than religious basis, Author Herberg warns, are deluded. A return to religious essentials is necessary, and it will call for "an earnest effort to seek out and gather the sparks of faith hidden among the fragments of contemporary Jewish existence. It involves the return of the rabbi from his present functions as administrator, political leader and popular lecturer, to his earlier and more authentic role of religious teacher and counselor. Most of all, it implies a synagogue interested primarily not in making itself dominant as an organization...
...wonderful way of saying," he concluded, "that theological education is incomplete unless it receives light from secular education, as well as the other way round-there's a dark spot in the liberal arts unless light from religion is thrown upon them...