Harvey Cox Quotes
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. . . .
What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.
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.
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.
The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.
Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.
The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.
The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.
Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.
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.
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.
I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.
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 done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.