Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been engaging Genesis publically for some time, but declined to be on the Moyers show. In Genesis: As It Is Written (HarperSanFrancisco), his collection of essays by writers and poets, he contends that contemporary authors are better qualified than Bible experts to explicate what he sees primarily as a secular masterpiece. Indeed, both Phillip Lopate's disconcerting contribution about playing Abraham in an Abraham-Sarah-Pharaoh triangle and David Mamet's Freudian riff on the Flood make for enjoyable reading. But Rosenberg's thesis is sorely tested by The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis (Image), a wonderful book...
...takes massive, ongoing effort and painful self-knowledge. The difficulty of the exercise lends a kind of credence to what some Christians see as the upshot of their doctrine of original sin: that people are born in need of a salvation gained through repentance. To put it in secular terms: so deeply hidden from natural introspection is our badness that moral reform requires a solid jolt of enlightenment, sharp and persistent awareness of our inherent baseness...
...Benjamin Netanyahu's election as Prime Minister. Since Netanyahu took office, relations between Israel and its Arab and Palestinian neighbors have been strained as Netanyahu drags his feet on implementing Rabin's peace plan. The rifts within Israel have also not recovered from the assassination, as the differences between secular and religious Jews, and peace supporters and those who oppose giving up land have been exacerbated. There also were disagreements on how Rabin should be remembered. His family, which holds Netanyahu partially responsible for the political climate that contributed to Rabin's death, wanted a national day of mourning. After...
Offering what organizers called a chance to explore the role of Christianity at an increasingly secular Harvard, this weekend's Veritas Forum attempted to help participants find God at Harvard...
This charge would be hilarious if it weren't so grievous. There are about as many Israelis who want to tear down Aqsa and build the Temple as there are Americans who believe they've flown on UFOS. Secular Jews view the idea of rebuilding the Temple as loony; religious Jews, as sacrilegious. (Only God can rebuild the Temple.) Yet the Palestinian Authority echoed this incendiary libel, calling on Palestinians "to express their anger" over this "aggression on al-Aqsa mosque" and "desecration of the holy places...