Harvey Cox

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Harvey Cox looks at a Honeywell frag grenade (1973)

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

Life

Cox attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a bachelor's degree cum laude in history in 1951 . He studied further at Yale and Harvard Universities , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1963 . In 1957, he became a pastor in a Baptist congregation in the American Baptist Churches , while also serving as an assistant professor at Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts . In 1965, Cox began teaching at Harvard Divinity School , the theological faculty at Harvard University , and became a full professor there in 1969.

In 1965, Cox reached City Without God? (The Secular City) sold more than a million copies. The main thesis of the book was that God was no less present in worldly contexts than in the institutionalized churches. Christian denominations should be progressive, even revolutionary. His writings set the tone above all for liberal groups in English-speaking theology in the 1960s.

In 2010, Cox was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2011 the Theological Faculty of the Humboldt University in Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Fonts

  • City without god? 6th edition, Stuttgart, Berlin: Kreuz-Verlag 1971, ISBN 3-7831-0024-0 , engl. 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 Festival of Fools - Laughter is hope's last weapon . Stuttgart & Berlin, Kreuz-Verlag 1970. ISBN 3-7831-0335-5 , engl. The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy , Harvard University Press 1969, ISBN 0-674-29525-0 , Paperback at Harper & Row 1970, ISBN 0-06-080272-3 , Paperback at HarperCollins 2000, ISBN 0 -06-090212-4
  • Seduction of the Spirit , German by Werner Simpfendörfer. Stuttgart Kreuz-Verlag, 1974. ISBN 3-7831-0437-8 , engl. 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 Spirituality-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, reprinted 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), reprinted by Decapo Press 2001: ISBN 0-306-81049-2
  • ed. 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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personal data
SURNAME Cox, Harvey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cox, Harvey Gallagher junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Malvern, Pennsylvania