Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Theological Seminary made a major shift in direction by choosing as its new president George W. ("Bill") Webber, 49, liberal former pastor of the experimental East Harlem Protestant Parish. Out went required courses; in came such things as a part-time bachelor-of-divinity program, which those in secular employment can finish in five years...
...Secularization of religious thought, typified by Harvey Cox's The Secular City...
...imperative. They feel no lack of any underpinning theology; a pressing social need is Gospel enough. For others, the words of Jesus are a better rationale: "As long as you did it for one of these, the least of my brethren, you did it for me." Yet secular involvement is an enterprise that brings many unfamiliar encounters; it can profoundly disturb the cleric who comes to it without a theology. For such men, contemporary theologians are seeking to develop a new understanding of the central relationships of human life, and in the process are redefining man, the world...
...developing world where man is continually changing, and at least the concept of God is changing with him. Those shaping the new thought are natural heirs to a number of earlier schools of philosophy and theology that have attempted to explain man's role in the secular-Hegel and Whitehead, the process theologians, the existentialists and evolutionary thinkers like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The problematic relationship between the sacred and secular is described in Harvey Cox's influential 1965 book The Secular City as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself...
...future may well remain as elusive as it has been in the past. For all of the hoping, God will still seem painfully far ahead; for all of the evidence at hand, the rumors of angels will often be too faint to hear. What then? In secular society, as in earlier eras, the question mark will remain. But so will the glimmers of answers...