Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reproving the appeal to violence, which declares as propitious for such an agitation a moment when the country is called upon to face the greatest international and financial difficulties the Chamber puts its confidence in the Government to continue, without weakening, a firm and loyal application of secular...
...greatest evil of our civilization," continued Rabbi Levi, "is our two kinds of law,--church and state. We ought only to have one. Years ago, when the church and the state were one, there was but a single law. This law, whether you call it ecclesiastical or secular does not matter, covered all cases and its great advantage lay in that its provisions were enforced by both the temporal and spiritual power. Now that these are separate, the secular law no longer receives the sanction of the spiritual; men say that, since the law is man-made...
...irony capable of confounding all coiners of catch phrases that religious discussion should occupy a prominent place at Harvard, often called "godless" to imply its apathy to such matters. Quite the contrary to "godless", Harvard can not rest with a religious ideal in conflict with secular knowledge. The period is one of transition, in which every student decides for himself whether in his case...
...scientific and otherwise, and treats of them all from a Catholic point of view. The plan of Judge Rogers' encyclopedia would seem to limit it to those subjects on which there should properly exist both a Protestant and a Catholic point of view. "Protestants will continue to trust secular encyclopedias for their knowledge of secular affairs," said one commentator...
...merging of the sacred and the secular...