A Harvey Cox Reader Quotes

“Debates about the existence of God or the gods were raging in Plato's time, twenty-five hundred years ago. Remarkably, they still rage on today, as a recent spate of books rehearsing the routine arguments for and against the existence of God demonstrates. By their nature these quarrels are about beliefs and can never be finally settled. But faith, which is more closely related to awe, love, and wonder, arose long before Plato, among our most primitive Homo sapiens forebears. Plato engaged in disputes about beliefs, not about faith.”
― Harvey Cox, Harvey Cox Reader

“the people who are attracted to pentecostalism around the world, although many critics dismiss them as an anachronism, are actually more of an avant-garde. They are the very people who are already bearing the brunt of the same numbing social dislocation and cultural upheaval that is in store for us all.”
― Harvey Cox, Harvey Cox Reader

“The contest between the fundamentalist and the experientialist impulses has barely begun. The question of which one will eventually supersede the spent and weary forces of scientific modernity and conventional religion as the principal source of coherence and value in tomorrow's world is still undecided. The stakes are very high, and the battle is raging on several fronts at once….”
― Harvey Cox, Harvey Cox Reader