Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second assumption is that the intellectual must be a critic of his society, an opponent of established values, playing the part of a secular and reproachful cleric. This Socratic role has always been one essential function of the intellectual, but only in recent times has it come to be looked on as the only function; a great many intellectuals today demand their daily cup of instant hemlock...
...fire and zeal of younger members of the society, who have plenty of ideas of what ought to be done. Many would like to see the society abandon all but a handful of its best universities-such as Fordham and Georgetown-and send its top professors to jobs at secular universities. Bored with an outdated classical curriculum, they would like more training in social and physical sciences, greater freedom to develop a Christian theology for the racial struggle and international development. "You can't affect the world if you don't reflect it," says a San Francisco Jesuit...
...most pressing issue facing Christian theologians is how to talk sense about God to a secular, science-minded, doubt-filled world. The drastic solution of the post-Christian followers of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is to say that the traditional idea of God is dead and turn to other concerns. Another way, favored by Biblical Scholar Rudolf Bultmann and his disciples, is to see the meaning of God in existential terms. But many U.S. Protestant theologians find it impossible to live without God or to preach him existentially, and the process theologians are trying another way based on the philosophies of Alfred...
...good a man was in his secular life is often an accurate guide to how good he will be as a pastor. "If he's a successful businessman, he's likely to do pretty well in the ministry," says Methodist Minister Charles Merrill Smith, author of the recent How to Become a Bishop Without Being Religious. "If he's a punk businessman, he's likely to be a pretty punk minister...
Civil rights advocates among the clergy who prefer picket lines to preaching are skeptical about the worth of Billy's Southern crusade. "I think my ministry is a little bit different from marching," answers Billy, who believes that the church must cleanse itself before attacking secular ills. "I've said often that the most segregated hour of the week is 11 o'clock Sunday morning. We can't point an accusing finger at the secular world when the churches are not integrated...