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Ramsey Arthur Michael: Sacred and Secular (London Longmans 1965)
Archbishop of Canterbury and President of the World Council of Churches. A write-up of his Holland Lectures delivered 1964.

"Secular goods are presumably good in themselves and this must be acknowledged ... the Christian Church with its members has the difficult but fascinating task of living in the heart of the secular world coming alongside all the good which is there and at the same time lovingly upholding a critique  of the secular world in the light of the supernatural.  Inevitably this critique will be more lived than spoken." [Quote p p 65]

"Sacred and secular, otherworldly and this-worldly: my conclusion is that Christianity is uncompromisingly both not in any facile Anglican or archepiscopal compromise but in a costly interrelation.  We follow Christ who in the form of a servant made himself utterly one with humanity and history ... as Christ was in the world and not of the world so is his Church called to be."  [Quote p 70]