Religion in a secular city : essays in honor of Harvey Cox / edited by Arvind Sharma.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cox, Harvey, 1929-

Sharma, Arvind.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Harrisburg, PA : Trinity Press International, [2001]

Summary:

Arvind Sharma and the contributors to this collection honor Harvey Cox's seminal contributions to the study of religion. The book includes essays on Cox's life and work at Harvard, his work as a liberation theologian in the Third World, and his themes of interreligious dialogue, grassroots theology, and secularization.

Contents:

Harvey Cox: A Short Biography xi

1. Professor Harvey Cox: How I Came to Know Him / Arvind Sharma 3

2. A Reminiscence / Robert McAfee Brown 11

3. The Times, God, and Harvey Cox / John C. Cort 13

4. Building Alliances: Cox and Levenson / Jorge Pixley 20

5. Training Prophets: Reconciliation and Ministry in Civil Society / Rodney L. Petersen 29

6. Harvey G. Cox: Socio-Theological Critical Conscience and Prophet/Friend of Third World Christianity / Victor F. Wan-Tatah 46

7. The Secular and the Religious under the Shadow of the Cross: Implications in Christoph Blumhardt's Kingdom Spirituality for a Christian Response to World Religions / Frank D. Macchia 59

8. The Whiteness of God: The Unintended Theological Legacy of James Baldwin / William Hamilton 78

9. Stories as Arrows: The Religious Response to Modernity / Robert N. Bellah 91

10. Manana Is Today: A Socio-theological Reflection on the Latino Journey / Rev. Eldin Villafane 105

11. The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life: Seven Theses / Jurgen Moltmann 116

12. Global Ethic for a New Global Order / Hans Kung 121

13. "Everybody Talkin' 'Bout Heaven Ain't Goin' There": Black Spirituals as Theology / James H. Cone 129

14. Ways of Experiencing God Today / Leonardo Boff 142

15. Beggars at the Threshold of God's Door / Margaret Eletta Guider 148

16. A Kabbalah for the Environmental Age / Arthur Green 171

17. Untouchable Culture, Liberating Religion, and the Christian Gospel: A Case from South India / Sathianathan Clarke 180

18. Religion and the Goldhagen Thesis / Richard L. Rubenstein 195

19. Beyond the Condition of (Post)-Modernity: Does Liberation Theology Still Have a Politics? A Brazilian Case Study / Iain S. Maclean 226

20. Embracing the Lite / William Martin 249

21. Commander Data: A Candidate for Harvard Divinity School? / Anne Foerst 263

22. Visible Religion: An Introduction to World Religion through the Visual Arts / Elinor W. Gadon 282.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1563383373

OCLC:

46959921