Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appreciate your drawing your readers' attention to the debacle which takes place within Protestantism when the principle of authoritative divine revelation is allowed to decline and is replaced by the mood of secular society. Unfortunately I believe that your reporter has left a mistaken impression in the minds of some readers, for many have already commented to me. I cited the statement, "You're talking to Harvard and Radcliffe students. If you want them to listen you can't talk about God," as a perfect example of the utter failure of some Protestant clergy to do the very thing...
...article, Brown, a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School '59 and a minister of students at the Park St. Church in Boston, insists that the Protestant Church of today, having abandoned Biblica lauthority, is now deformed by secular sanctions. He continues the argument saying that since the Scripture is the formal basis of Protestantism, without it "Protestantism collapses like a punctured dirigible...
Furthermore, Brown objects that the "flocking of clergy to the integrationists' banners today is nothing more than their participation, boosted by a few religious slogans, in a movement dictated by the mood of secular society...
...United Ministry at Harvard, said last night that Brown's quote had been "wrenched out of context." Commenting on Brown's attack on the reasons Harvard ministers endorsed the civil rights movement, Mumma said that many of them were acting out of a profound religious conviction and not simply secular reasoning...
Already many U.S. seminaries are sending their students to nearby secular institutions for classes, adapting the curriculum to conform more to university standards of a liberal arts or science education. Carrying on the Jesuit tradition of scholarship, dozens of young scholastics are earning doctorates in space sciences, working side by side with laymen at research centers. "When the astronauts land on the moon," says Jesuit Scholastic Don Merrifield, who works at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, "there will be a Jesuit scientist among the entourage that follows...