Word: seculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey stated that the role of a secular university is to "help her sons ask the right questions--and all the questions." He criticized secularism for not asking "the questions which are of most importance to us all," and asserted that religion, by answering these questions supplies meaning to life, and gives, "through faith in God, a basis for ethical behavior...
...cities on the periphery of Mormon Country, in the rural areas, in the East, and abroad. O'Dea's analysis portrays brilliantly the intellectual movements and conflicts in contemporary Mormonism, such as the tension between Mormon belief in a strong education and the fear of contamination by secular thought. His discussion, however, suffers from too great a reliance on the views of a relatively few Mormon intellectuals...
...Regardless of its origin," Bruner argued, "the pursuit of a University is secular." He stated that the search for truth "is damaged by commitment based on faith," and that, therefore, the University should not express official opinions on religious matters...
...meet with little succes. First the editors say they recognize that our generation (Are we a generation until we've done something?) is, in this order, silent, apathetic, decadent and delinquent. Then: "Withdrawal is not, for us, a retrogression into apathy; rather it rises from a realization that the secular Utopia is a mirage and that in the complexity of the outer world lies little meaning for the individual...
Stendahl pointed out that Harvard no longer understands itself as within the Christian tradition. "Religion," said Stendahl, "should never be brought into the scene in a secular university as a unifying aspect. It can only be divisive...