Sentences with phrase «now secularized»

By the mid-sixties, two forces were converging to destroy the secularized liberal Protestant (or now secularized Judeo - Christian) Enlightenment consensus through a sort of pincer action.

«51 He rejects the use of the terms «institution» (which implies divine sanction for any status quo), «estate» (too many new connotations which distort the original Reformation usage), and «office» (it is now secularized and associated with bureaucracy).

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Now in America, where be has acquired social power, his distrust of the Christian community leads him to align himself with the secularizing forces whose dominance, he thinks, will afford him a security he has never known.

However, as Protestantism's puritan impulse became secularized in subsequent centuries, it took the form of rationalistic cynicism and skepticism — a mind - set now shared by believers and unbelievers alike.

Communism is «the secularized remnant of a transcendent ideal...» There is a better alternative to that now - fading ideology than the hedonism and practical materialism of the West.

Now that we have a sense of what praising God involves, we can see the extent to which the worship of God in mainline Protestantism has become secularized, and then how praising God can restore integrity to our worship and so be an antidote to that secularization itself.

Our secularized, de-absolutized anti-culture reaches now even into our churches and other sacred spaces, dictating a partly unconscious watering - down into «niceness» of tough Christian understandings and an emptying - out of Christian words and concepts.

And the individualistic erosion of local community now makes necessary and possible a NATIONAL COMMUNITY and a secularized common or civic faith.

During a recent journey to Japan I discovered that 250 years after his death Bach is now playing a key role in evangelizing that country, one of the most secularized nations in the developed world.

What then is the future of biblical criticism in colleges and seminaries where students are now arriving already deconverted and secularized?

A lot of us have been secularized enough by now that our view of the world has flattened out, and the Second Advent of Jesus Christ doesn't fit into a flattened - out world very well.

Put differently: The modern situation would present a formidable challenge to religion even if it were, or would come to be, much less secularized than it now is.

Aligned against the «secularize or be shut out» approach is a growing coalition that now numbers more than seventy organizations including the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Christian Coalition, the Association of Christian Schools International, the American Association of Christian Schools, and Agudath Israel of America, which represents the Orthodox Jewish community.