Harvey Cox

Harvey Cox is Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard, where he has been teaching since 1965, both at HDS and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. An American Baptist minister, he was the Protestant chaplain at Temple University and the director of religious activities at Oberlin College; an ecumenical fraternal worker in Berlin; and a professor at Andover Newton Theological School. His most recent books are When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today, and The Future of Faith. His Secular City, published in 1965, became an international bestseller sold over 1 million copies and was selected by the University of Marburg as one of the most influential books of Protestant theology in the twentieth century.

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Christian Living

Spirituality

The Future of Faith

Talking Points

Harvey Cox, Harvard scholar, continues to be one of the top religion experts today. As an expert and groundbreaking religion scholar and author, Cox, secures top media spots and still the go-to author for religion, spirituality, and social justice.

Description

Legendary Harvard religion scholar Harvey Cox offers up a new interpretation of the history and future of religion. Cox identifies three fundamental shifts over the last 2,000 years of church history:

• The Age of Faith was when the early church was more concerned with following Jesus’ teachings than enforcing what to believe about Jesus.

• The Age of Belief marks a significant shift-between the fourth and twentieth centuries-when the church focused on orthodoxy and right beliefs.

•The Age of the Spirit, that began in the 1960s and is shaping not just Christianity but other religious traditions today, is ignoring dogma and breaking down barriers between different religions. Spirituality is replacing formal religion.

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