Harvey Cox Quotes

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• 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…
• Not to decide is to decide.
• There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.
• Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
• What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
• Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
• 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…
• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
• The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
• It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of…
• The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
• "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"…
• The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
• God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.
• All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has…

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