Let us now examine briefly the effect of secularizing Trinity College upon the Protestant and Roman Catholic Students respectively.
Church and the clergy from all the positions of public trust they still hold, and reducing the Church to the level of a sect tolerated and as far as possible ignored by the State, and secularizing education, marriage and family life.
The agitation for secularizing the schools, the immense majority of which have hitherto been denominational, gains continually in force and range under the influence of the news from Rome.
By erecting this new standard of action, Richelieu took a great step towards secularizing the whole system of European politics.
The secularizing effect of the Reformation, indeed, was even more marked there than elsewhere.
What he read there was hostile to the Protestant administrators and the secularizing princes.
The moralization of the world has, as a matter of historic fact, kept pace with the secularizing of life.
Men like Augustine were occupied in de-secularizing the knowledge of their times; that is, in reshaping it so that it should fill a subordinate place in the religious scheme and so support that scheme, or at least not be in opposition to it.
At the point where this de-secularizing process was complete, at the opening of the seventh century, lived the Spanish bishop and scholar, Isidore of Seville.
The pacificator, however, had to face two groups of irreconcilables, the Bishop of Toronto with his extremist following, and the secularizing party resolute to have done with any form of subsidy to religion.
What complicates the danger and difficulty of such a position, with its confusion of natural and human values, and its rationalizing and secularizing of theistic thinking, is that it has its measure of reality.
But there are many signs at the present moment of the increasing secularizing of our churches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secularizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
