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

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

"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.

source: - Harvey Cox (1985). “Seduction Spirit”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

Topics: Children, Healing, School, Clinic

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

source: - Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”

Topics: Reality, Political, Politician

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 a society.

source: - Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.270, Princeton University Press

Topics: Thinking, Intellectual, Tasks, Intellectualism, Idiosyncrasies

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

source: - Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.190, Princeton University Press

Topics: Real, Catholic, Church, Church Life

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.

Topics: Christian, Europe, America, South America

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

source: - Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.258, Princeton University Press

Topics: Religious, Responsibility, Men

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

source: - Harvey Cox (2013). “The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective”, p.261, Princeton University Press

Topics: Lasts, Form, Forbidden, Public Discourse, Sermons

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

Topics: Jesus, Nazareth

Not to decide is to decide.

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 decisions, however pusillanimous.

source: - "On Not Leaving It to the Snake". Book by Harvey Cox, 1967.

Topics: Decision, Finals, Analysis

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

Topics: Struggle, World, Comic

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 for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

Topics: Christian, Religious, America, Moral Authority, Christian Ethics

Secularism is not only indifferent to alternative religious systems, but as a religious ideology it is opposed to any other religious systems. It is therefore a closed system.

Topics: Christian, Religious, Alternatives, Secularism

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

Topics: Should, Exceed

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

Topics: Christian, Religious, Self, Political Debates

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

Topics: Meaningful, Christian, Religious, American Culture, Secular Humanism

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