Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such, says Dawson, is not the whole case. Christian culture still has a tenacious vitality, but it must be made available to the minds and hearts of the young. This means that in Western universities and colleges, secular and religious alike, a strenuous effort must be directed to the study of Christian history, Christian theology and Christian tradition...
...Secular Side. The heart of Western civilization, says Historian Dawson, is its Christian culture. By this he means not the Christian religion but its impact on the social life and institutions of the West. Today that Western heart is not beating at the center of things, where it belongs, but is fluttering on the fringes, and Western civilization is sick with a bad case of secularism...
...suggests that courses in Christian culture may be worked out by secular experts in the same way that Great Books courses were formulated and coordinated-with different courses of study, such as literature, history, art, philosophy and education. The teaching of Christianity as a social and historical phenomenon is favored by Protestants. But few have yet been persuaded that Dawson's prescription is vital to the patient's survival. Dawson begs to disagree: only by placing Christian values at the center will Western man acquire "the higher moral aims which alone can justify the immense developments of technological...
...Live. Some observers blame the decline in vocations to the priesthood on the rise in vocations to the so-called secular institutes-religious organizations such as Opus Dei, in which men and women may take vows of obedience (but rarely poverty or chastity) and go on living in the world. Since the late Pope Pius XII recognized their validity in 1947. secular institutes have mushroomed in Italy: from 1949 to 1958, more than 250 applied to the Vatican for formal recognition. "There is no doubt.'' said a Vatican prelate last week, "that these organizations have attracted many...
...there is a strong suggestion that The Bomb is merely a handy device, welcomed almost with relief, for the release of anxiety and guilt that have little to do with the subject as such. For many Bomb worriers, it seems to be a true phobia, a kind of secular substitute for the Last Judgment, and a truly effective nuclear ban would undoubtedly deprive them of a highly comforting sense of doom...