How To Use Secularize In A Sentence
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They have been further homogenized, and secularized, in the postwar years of relative affluence by American-style middle-class consumerism.
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He claims that Western secularized society makes it difficult to live as a Christian.
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However, many Christian leaders condemn the fact that it is being increasingly secularized and commercialized.
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Now that Italian society has become increasingly secularised, and the power of the church has ostensibly decreased, contemporary pasquinades do not, in general, lampoon the Vatican.
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Because of its concern with imminent change, millenarianism appealed to radical reformers and could be secularized into utopianism.
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His foreign policy was, as Richelieu's had often been, indifferent to the interests of Catholicism: the Peace of Westphalia gave its solemn sanction to the legal existence of Calvinism in Germany, and, while the nuncio vainly protested, Protestant princes were rewarded with secularized bishoprics and abbacies for their political opposition to
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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This includes all those who wish to make the Church of Jesus Christ into a purely humanitarian society, to rob her of her supernatural character, to secularize and desacralize her.
Bizarre
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In 1525 Albrecht of Hohenzollern, Grand Master of the Order, accepted Lutheranism, secularized the state, and created a duchy as a fief of Poland.
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The Roman alphabet replaced Arabic writing, the state became exclusively secular, monogamous marriages were introduced, and education was secularized.
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But just a hair above a majority of his votes came from a secularized portion of society.
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We allowed our colleges and universities to be secularized, and our beautiful liturgy to be vulgarized to the point where it often seems like an especially vulgar karaoke night.
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Subsequent to that, Falwell placed some of the blame for 9/11 squarely on a range of Americans -- civil liberties groups, feminists, homosexuals, abortion rights supporters -- who have tried to "secularize" America.
Flashback: Robertson Agreed That America "Deserved" 9/11
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What, even my entirely irreligious God-hating top-to-bottom secularized new-Jew-seeking dad who would have doubled my pocket money had I told him I was going out with shikseh triplets?
Kalooki Nights
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As a result, the secularized congregants in our pews tend to be ‘religious agnostics’ rather than true believers.
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He secularizes it into a belief in necessity or determinism.
Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President
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Shulevitz then discusses Michael Ruse's contention that there's a quasi-religious movement among scientists called "evolutionism," which apparently is a "partly secularized postmillennialist" movement.
Hullabaloo
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Now the fight appears headed to the courts as residents of Giles County, along Virginia's rugged, pious southwestern spine, fight what they call mounting pressure from Washington and Richmond to secularize their public institutions.
Ten Commandments in school stirs fight in Va. district
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Philosophy thus secularizes its theological ambitions and becomes discursively cosmopolitan in the process.
Post-Secular Conviviality
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Perhaps, ultimately, the question boils down to whether, when the explanatory function of the "religious sense" ceases to be plausible, the appropriate response is to "secularize" our understanding of the phenomenon in question, or to simply reinterpret the religious understanding thereof.
Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion 9: Has Science Made Belief in God Obsolete?
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Religion has become a dirty word in our aggressively secularised society, so that any opportunity to take a swipe at it is eagerly embraced by the protagonists of the brave new world of conformist humanism.
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Perhaps more to the point, however, Heidegger's secularized meditation on the imminence of death and the responsibilities that devolve to us as a result owe more to the heroic literature of Ernest Juenger.
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This includes all those who wish to make the Church of Jesus Christ into a purely humanitarian society, to rob her of her supernatural character, to secularize and desacralize her.
Bizarre
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The character of American Christianity may be summarized as " secularized ".
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Lastly, the Pentecostal prosperity Gospel secularizes communities.
Grant Brooke, M.Div.: The Case for the Prosperity Gospel
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Meanwhile, I have found that, contrary to increasingly popular opinion, there is no lurking agenda within public education to secularize our students; there is no tacit understanding between teachers and the state to discourage students from their faith whatever that faith may be.
Austin Carty: A Christian Plea For Public Education
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Anthony Appiah understands cosmopolitanism as a rigorously educated personal attitude or disposition toward the world — Coleridge more thoroughly secularizes that cosmopolitan perspective.
Romantic Fear
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This explains the movement among the secularized elite to equate humans and animals.
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The main proposal of the ‘Edict of Restitution’ was to ensure that the ‘Ecclesiastical Reservation’ was enforced and it affected the secularised archbishoprics of Bremen and Magdeburg, 12 bishoprics and over 100 religious houses.
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Marked by the thickened release of "good" from "growing," what we find inscribed from within narrative time is both a phrase for cumulative social improvement and an asymptote of its visionary teleology as well, Tennyson secularized: the immediate "growing betterment" (participial adjective plus noun) as well as, hard on its heels, the "growing [ultimately] good
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The Pope had no great sympathy for the secularized West.
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Ataturk secularized Turkey
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Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm.
Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos