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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 research and teaching interests focus on the interaction of religion, culture, and politics. Among the issues he explores are: urbanization, theological developments in world Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations, and current spiritual movements in the global setting. His most recent book is When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Decisions Today...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 543 ratings · 83 reviews · 32 distinct works

	The Future of Faith 3.89 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today 3.79 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fire From Heaven: The Rise Of Pentecostal Spirituality And The Reshaping Of Religion In The 21st Century 3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective 3.58 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1969 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Common Prayers: Faith, Family, and a Christian's Journey Through the Jewish Year 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Turning East: Why Americans Look to the Orient for Spirituallity-And What That Search Can Mean to the West 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Many Mansions 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Seduction of the Spirit 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Not to decide is to decide.”
― Harvey Cox

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