A biography for Harvey Coxhasn’t been written yet.
“All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.”
“Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.”
“There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.”
“What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all along.”
“Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness”
“Not to decide is to decide.”