We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
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. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it… — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . . — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life. — Harvey Cox Copy Share Image
