"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.
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end. - Harvey Cox
God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
- Harvey Cox
Not to decide is to decide. - Harvey Cox
Not to decide is to decide.
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . - Harvey Cox
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer… - Harvey Cox
We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer…
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our dec… - Harvey Cox
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our dec…
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power. - Harvey Cox
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. - Harvey Cox
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. - Harvey Cox
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is … - Harvey Cox
Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is …
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