Bishop Paulose Mar Paulsoe prefers to call himself a «secular theologian» because he communicates the Christian faith
in secular language.
The greatest power of preaching is when it becomes a subversive language event and announces in familiar context of
secular language something that is utterly hidden: the fugitive God of the Christian tradition.
If the one or two Muslim holidays that are added are watered down
with secular language then I'm in favor.
According to Fisher, religious groups seeking to shape a cultural Weltanschauung should betreated as Madisonian «factions» that win some and lose some according to their ability to cast religiously grounded convictions in
sanitized secular language.
As subversive language - event it announces in the familiar context of
secular language something that is utterly hidden: the fugitive God of the Christian tradition.
but it seems to me that many people create a false dychotomy between secular and spiritual and between spiritual language and
secular language.
Mainline churches, for the most part, have accepted the priority of
secular language.
They speak
a secular language of sports talk, celebrity gossip and current events.
He could speak to people outside the church also about his faith in
a secular language.
Otherwise Muslims demonstrating against Rushdie referred to their feelings of outrage at his depiction of Muhammad by using
the secular language of libel, defamation and hate - speech.