Harvey Cox

Theologian

1929-05-19

Books by Harvey Cox

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Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness
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Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness
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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.
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The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
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The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
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The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voice-lessness.
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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.
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Not to decide is to decide.
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The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
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Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
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