1960's Religion | 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...