What does the world "secular" mean?

Question

I need to know what this word means and how it connects to the Renaissance.

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Answer 1

The word has slightly different meanings, but in this case it is an adjective which means "of or concerned with temporal, worldly matters rather than with religion".

The Renaissance incorporated a number of dominant ideas and attitudes including: optimism, WORLDLINESS, hedonism, naturalism, individualism and HUMANISM. The most significant of them all was humanism. In its broadest sense humanism may be defined as the glorification of the human and the natural as opposed to THE DIVINE OR OTHERWORLDLY.
Even certain Popes of this period in history were regarded as secular.

Answer 2

This originates in medieval European history when the "clerical"
group was associated with the Catholic clergy and the "secular" sphere involved everyone else. There was only one Christian church in Europe until Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation in approximately 1519. The "clerics" of the Catholic church were generally the most educated people of the Middle Ages in Europe.

Answer 3

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1 English
1.1 Etymology
1.2 Adjective
1.3 Antonyms
1.4 Translations



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English
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Etymology
Latin saecularis, of the age, from saeculum

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Adjective
temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something divine.
not bound by religious vows and oaths
a secular priest
happening from age to age
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Antonyms
divine (1)
supernatural (1)
permanent (1)

Answer 4

It means from the world, not religiously oriented.

Answer 5

concerned with the world. not religious or spiritual

Answer 6

Use your Dictionary!

Answer 7

not sacred or not monastic,
wordly, civil, nonreligious, refering to people that are so,

Answer 8

non-religious