Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which in some ways foreshadows today's "situation ethics" (TIME, Jan. 21). His most radical and prophetic ideas Bonhoeffer explored in the letters he wrote from Berlin's Tegel prison to his friend and fellow pastor, Eberhard Bethge. These reveal the vision of a new kind of secular Christianity, preaching the Gospel of Jesus, "the man for others," using a "nonreligious interpretation of Biblical concepts...
...Israel's powerful National Religious Party to force his resignation. Cohn intends to keep his post, and Justice Minister Yaakov Shapiro supports him. "The observance of the precepts of the Torah is a private matter between a man and his God," he says, reflecting the state's secular view but merely angering the Orthodox rabbis that much more...
...implement his new beliefs he created the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization for Afro-American Unity, religious and secular organizations designed to appeal to a larger segment of the Negro masses than the Black Muslims...
...source of its inner renewal. In Authority in the Church, he contends that the church should have its own unique understanding of authority: not power and control but, as Jesus clearly indicated, humble service and love. Too often, argues McKenzie, church leaders have forgotten this divine instruction and adopted secular standards in its place. McKenzie points out that "the Basilica of St. Peter is one of the few places in the world where one can see a full-scale live reproduction of the pageantry of a Renaissance court." The Christian concept of authority, McKenzie concludes, is not an impersonal rule...
...true that "tradition tends to embalm the moment in time when the culture feels it is at its peak." Call our generation neopagan, secular or whatever, it is at odds with phoniness and insincerity. Our irreverent generation is not bent on overturning the past, but on crying out against the arbitrary embalming and sanctification of one historical moment. Our American lack of "tradition" is not our national stigma; our innate respect for and optimistic sense of an evolving human experience has been the unsung American contribution to modern civilization...