American Decades
The Secular City
Theological work
By: Harvey Cox
Date: 1965
Source: Cox, Harvey Gallagher. The Secular City. New York: Macmillan, 1965, 241–243, 257–258, 264–268.
About the Author: Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr. (1929–) was born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 and a bachelor's of divinity degree from Yale in 1955. In 1963, he received a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School and was appointed professor of theology at Andover Newton Theological Seminary. He joined the Harvard University Divinity School faculty in 1965. An author of several books, he is regarded as one of the most influential Protestant theologians.
Introduction
In The Secular City, theologian Harvey Cox expressed his view that two critical social changes were taking place in the 1960s: the escalation of urbanization and the...
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1960's Religion Primary Sources
- Braunfeld v. Brown
- "Atheism"
- Pacem in Terris
- The Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama
- "Eulogy for the Martyred Children"
- Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World)
- Are You Running with Me, Jesus?
- What's the Difference? A Comparison of the Faiths Men Live By
- The Secular City
- World Aflame
- Humanae Vitae: Encyclical of Pope Paul VI on the Regulation of Birth
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
