Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myth, fear and superstition is dead. The God in whose name many have been tortured and killed is dead. The God who serves as the father figure watching over man is dead. The multiple Gods, representing the multiple religions with their multiple distorted views, are dead. Let secular evolutionary humanism with its love and faith in man, his wisdom and courage, be born and live...
...gave to Selma? One reason, possibly, was guilt: until recently, the churches had largely ignored both the spiritual and material welfare of California's farm workers. Another reason, certainly, was the growing theological conviction of today's servant church that Christianity must take the lead in supporting secular causes that promote justice and equality...
Touring the Bars. Once strictly segregated from the world, seminarians have been given more opportunity to study the secular culture they will be living in after their ordination. At Chicago's St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, once among the nation's most straitlaced, students can now have their own radios, are encouraged to attend plays, concerts and lectures in town. With their rector's permission, two seminarians from St. Patrick's of San Francisco periodically tour the city's homosexual bars with vice-squad cops for a sociological survey...
...theological conviction that God is acting anonymously in human history is not likely to turn many atheists toward him. Secular man may be anxious, but he is also convinced that anxiety can be explained away. As always, faith is something of an irrational leap in the dark, a gift of God. And unlike in earlier centuries, there is no way today for churches to threaten or compel men to face that leap; after Dachau's mass sadism and Hiroshima's instant death, there are all too many real possibilities of hell on earth...
...quest for God, which respects no church boundaries, should also contribute to ecumenism. "These changes make many of the old disputes seem pointless, or at least secondary," says Jesuit Theologian Avery Dulles. The churches, moreover, will also have to accept the empiricism of the modern outlook and become more secular themselves, recognizing that God is not the property of the church, and is acting in history as he wills, in encounters for which man is forever unprepared...