Not exact matches
The term «humanist» was a bad word at that time among evangelicals, and the antagonism would soon intensify with the appearance, in 1980, of Tim LaHaye's bestseller, The Battle for the Mind, which
called for an all - out evangelical campaign against «
secular humanism.»
The situation
calls for the search for a new more holistic
humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue of religions and
secular ideologies.
The second area of concern is the rightists» view that American morals are being eroded by what they
call «
secular humanism.»
They are seeking what has been
called post-modern paradigms for «an open
secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic
humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.
Some of these theologians, and others as well, believe that Christian theology is most relevantly compared with doctrines about the meaning of life that are usually
called secular, such as communism, fascism, romantic naturalism, and rationalistic
humanism.