Harvey Cox

Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr. ( born March 19, 1929 in Malvern, Pennsylvania ) is a Baptist professor of theology at Harvard University. He works on the Ecumenical theology and liberation theology and the role of Christianity in Latin America.

Life

Cox attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a Bachelors degree in 1951 cum laude in history. He has studied at the universities of Yale and Harvard, where he in 1963 received his doctorate of philosophy. In 1957 he was pastor of a Baptist church and began at the same time as assistant professor at the Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts. In 1965, Cox teaching at Harvard Divinity School on the theological faculty of Harvard University, and became a full professor in 1969.

Cox reached in 1965 with his book city without God? ( The Secular City ) more than one million copies sold. This main thesis of the book was that God in secular contexts is no less present than in the institutionalized churches. Christian faith communities should behave progressive, even revolutionary. His writings set the tone, especially for liberal groupings of English theology in the 1960s.

On 14 June 2011 the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University awarded an honorary doctorate at Berlin Cox.

  • City without God? 6th edition, ( 21 - 26 thousand ), Stuttgart, Berlin: Kreuz -Verlag 1971 ISBN 3-7831-0024-0, Eng. The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective (1965 ), Collier Books, 25th anniversary edition 1990: ISBN 0-02-031155-9
  • God 's Revolution and Man 's Responsibilities (1966 )
  • The Feast of Fools - The laughter is hoping last weapon. Stuttgart and Berlin, cross -Verlag, 1970. ISBN 3783103355, Eng. The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy, Harvard University Press 1969, ISBN 0-674-29525-0, paperback by Harper & Row, 1970, ISBN 0-06-080272-3, paperback by Harper Collins 2000 ISBN 0 -06-090212-4
  • Seduction of Spirit, German by Werner Simpfendörfer. Stuttgart cross -Verlag, 1974. ISBN 3783104378, Eng. The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion, Touchstone edition 1973 and 1985: ISBN 0-671-21728-3
  • Turning East: Why Americans Look to the Orient for Spirituallity - And What That Search Can Mean to the West, Simon & Schuster 1978, ISBN 0-671-24405-1
  • Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology, Simon & Schuster, 1985, ISBN 0-671-52805- X
  • Many Mansions: A Christian's Encounter with Other Faiths, Beacon Press, 1988, reprint 1992, ISBN 0-8070-1213-0
  • The Silencing of Leonardo Boff: The Vatican and the Future of World Christianity, 1988, ISBN 0-940989-35-2
  • Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Re - Shaping of Religion in the 21st Century, (1994 ), reprint Decapo Press 2001: ISBN 0-306-81049-2
  • Hg. with Arvind Sharma: Religion in a Secular City: Essays in Honor of Harvey Cox, Trinity Press 2001, ISBN 1-56338-337-3
  • When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today, Houghton Mifflin 2004, ISBN 0-618-06744-2 (Hardcover)
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