Harvey Cox Quotations

The real ecumenical crisis today is not between Catholics and Protestants but between traditional and experimental forms of church life.

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Instead of a 'Western Christianity,' we now witness a post-Christian West (in Europe) and a post-Western Christianity (in the global South). America is somewhere in between.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

Your reach should always exceed your grasp.

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature of a society.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

Not to decide is to decide.