Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cox says Divinity School unrest about "sterile, Sunday-morning Christianity" simmered until the civil rights issue exploded in the mid-1930's. "That gave us a chance to speak out, a chance to show people we were interested." Pope John's support of ecumenism also helped shape a brand of world-conscious religion that has not been seen in America since the abolitionist movement of the 1850's, Cox explains...
...follows the can-do philosophy is Harvey Cox, who claims to be the only member of the University faculty living in Roxbury. His chief interest--ruling passion would be closer to the truth--is civil rights. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Massachusetts branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and directs a group of Divinity School students working in the South...
...Cox attributes the success of the School's projects to its students. The student body includes "everything from Bible-thumping Baptists to Unitarians, not to mention Roman and Eastern Catholics, atheists, and a number of Jews." About half of them are studying for the ministry, but the majority of the others will teach religion in colleges and seminaries...
...used to be that someone studying for the Protestant ministry would practically never meet a Catholic," Cox says. "But now, with the diverse body and field-work program, we are giving the students the same kind of on-the-job training that medical students...
...result of all this," Cox continues, "is a new image of the ministry. Five years ago when you thought of a minister you thought of a bland, unexciting man somewhat removed from the stress of real life. Today's image is more robust; it is the image of a man who wants to lead people in the application of ideals in the secular world, not merely to preside over a religious establishment...