Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secular Rebellion. The rebellion against this God of faith is best summed up by the word secularization. In The Secular City, Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School defines the term as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the dispelling of all closed world views, the breaking of all supernatural myths and sacred symbols." Slowly but surely, it dawned on men that they did not need God to explain, govern or justify certain areas of life...
...against Earth's warning that a "God" found in human depths may be an imagined idol?or a neurosis that could be dissolved on the psychiatrist's couch. Rudolf Bultmann answers that these human situations of anxiety and discernment represent "transformations of God," and are the only way that secular man is likely to experience any sense of the eternal and unconditional...
...Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except to secular ears...
Many other churchmen also believe that Christianity can draw from the secular present as well as from the sacred past. The 74-year-old Judson Memorial Church, in New York's Greenwich Village, has avant-garde movies, a dance theater, a theater, and an art gallery that was one of the first to display pop and happenings. Some of this esthetic interest has spilled over into the worship at Judson Memorial, most of whose 140 parishioners are not bearded beats but middle-class Manhattanites. Encouraged by Pastor Howard Moody, a Baptist, the congregants composed their own Thanksgiving Day jazz...
Impetus for the formation of a national, secular organization of volunteers devoted to overseas service came from several quarters...