Religion Quotes by Harvey Cox

8 Religion quotes by Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox’s eight brief reflections on religion provide a clear snapshot of his theological insights. This compact collection serves as a quick intro to his thoughtful commentary.

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Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems.…

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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…

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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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"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools…

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I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

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Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the…

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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…

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“If freedom once required a secular critique of religion, it can also require a religious critique of the secular.”

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There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

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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…

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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .

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What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.

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The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

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God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

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"Religion" can no more be equated with what goes on in churches than "education" can be reduced to what happens in schools or "health…

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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…

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