Harvey Cox
Harvey Cox
Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr.is one of the preeminent theologians in the United States who served as Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, until his retirement in October 2009. Cox's research and teaching focus on theological developments in world Christianity, including liberation theology and the role of Christianity in Latin America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth19 May 1929
CountryUnited States of America
thinking intellectual tasks
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.
real catholic church
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
lasts form forbidden
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
christian europe america
Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.
christian religious self
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
christian meaningful religious
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.
should exceed
Your reach should always exceed your grasp.
jesus nazareth surprising
There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
struggle world comic
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Not to decide is to decide.
religious responsibility men
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
christian religious alternatives
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.
children school healing
"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health care" restricted to what doctors do to patients in clinics. The vast majority of healing and learning goes on among parents and children and families and friends, far from the portals of any school or hospital. The same is true for religion. It is going on around us all the time. Religion is larger and more pervasive than churches.
reality political politician
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.