Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...connected with the Inquisition which, among its other crimes, was responsible for the horrible burning of the heretic philosopher, Giordano Bruno. It is a terrible sort of separation of church and state that makes it possible for the church to turn over a heretic to be burned by the secular...
Temples on Human Scale. The new churches first of all bear witness that congregations today are determined to reassert their place in a highly secular century. "This is not a great cathedral-building age, like the Middle Ages." Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe says, "Today, if you tried to build a cathedral, you would succeed only in building a big church. Not religion but technology is the controlling spirit...
...GODS, by André Malraux. With impressive erudition and zeal, Malraux tries to elevate the world's great art to the level of religion. He is persuasive enough when he finds the "spark of the divine" in religious art, less successful when he looks for it in secular painting. But few art critics have ever been more fervent in uncovering the meaning behind the artist's intention...
Congress had no jurisdiction. For the first time in centuries, the Catholic Church was free to work and witness as it saw fit, without special privileges but also without requiring a whole chain of consent from secular government...
...Faustus; for all I know, many of the comic scenes were written by Marlowe himself. But, they could be used discriminately so as to bear some relation to the dramatic undercurrent, which is, for whatever else one may add, a theme of sin, torture, and hell, coupled with the secular joys which lie along the path to hell...