Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Divinity School continues to be predominantly historical in its content and method. "Theology as the 'queen of the Sciences' no longer enjoys its ancient and unique position. In liberal seminaries it in supplemented, if not supplemented, by academic disciplines which have an independent status in the world of secular concerns. These disciplines are variously psychological, philosophical, sociological, aesthetic, and historical. In this School we have deliberately stressed the historical approach to the study of religion, at the cost of emphasis upon other approaches. The result is a curriculum which is confessedly over-developed on one side and under-developed...
...time of his nomination (he was originally picked by the conservative, military wing of the P. R. M.-Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution), he has swung steadily Right, repudiated Communist support. Religious restraints on the Church are going. Whether the Church will win its fight against secular education is not so certain, though there are signs that it is making headway...
Outstanding lay Thomist today is Jacques Maritain, who was converted to Catholicism at 20, became professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Outstanding secular centre of Thomism in the U. S. is the University of Chicago, where President Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Jerome Adler (How to Read a Book) urge Aquinas and other humanist thinkers upon their students. Scholasticism and Politics represents Maritain's recent lectures at Chicago...
...Catholics already sense that possibility. The Commonweal, U. S. Catholic liberal weekly, thus touched on it: "The Church obviously cannot choose for States a temporal form of government to support or condemn. . . . An operating secular government, on the other hand, necessarily has a temporal form and organization which makes the structure of other governments of great political importance, since their form will have an effect on itself...
...without being hackneyed, and light without degenerating into dinner-music, as happens so often at the Pops. Tonight's concert is garnered from a far broader range than most serious programs. From Elizabethan England comes a church liturgy by Byrd, full of wonderful organ effects and harmonic coloring. The secular spirit of the same age finds expression in a Morley madrigal, which has the fresh lyrical flavor one associates with Shakespeare's songs. Conventional seventeenth-century numbers are the choruses from "Croesus" and "Prinz Jodelet," by Reinhardt Keiser, but they are energetic and tuneful--and for modern ears, unusual. Finishing...