Sentence examples for secular preoccupation from inspiring English sources
He has made spiritual imagination — faith that goes beyond the material and the established; goodness that can be striven for and accomplished — seem consistent with secular preoccupation.
"It is a great sadness that before the New Year has hardly begun, the life of the Anglican Communion has yet again been clouded by compromise with the secular preoccupations of the West," he said.
The leader of a global group of traditional Anglicans has condemned the Church of England for "compromising with the secular preoccupations of the West" in an attack that significantly ratchets up the latest fallout between liberals and conservative over the thorny issue of homosexuality.
In the revival of Hebrew poetry, liturgical as well as secular, that translated the new preoccupation with language and beauty into art, Andalusian Jewry saw its greatest achievements.
He went on to criticize an "almost idolatrous preoccupation with the secular order," expressing a view not very popular among Harvard's worldly faculty.
The voice of doubting secular moderation and its daily preoccupations with comfort and pleasure are swept away by both parties.
The degree of Quimby's influence on her has been controversial, but, as his own son affirmed, her intensely religious preoccupations remained distinct from the essentially secular cast of Quimby's thought.
This was a somewhat strange preoccupation for a young artist in 17th-century Holland, where most artists specialized in secular paintings of everyday life and people.
La Chute reveals a preoccupation with Christian symbolism and contains an ironical and witty exposure of the more complacent forms of secular humanist morality.
I worried that, because she had renounced her secular past, she would shoot me down in a blaze of hellfire for even asking about her former preoccupations.
Another big, new preoccupation?
