Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Leading a delegation of six religious leaders. Harvey G. Cox Jr., Thomas Professor of Divinity, arrived in London this morning on a tour to mobilize antiwar activity in the world religious community...
WILLIS'S ANALYSIS of fifties liberalism and its culmination in the secular theology of Harvey Cox and the pragmatic style of John F. Kennedy is right on the mark even as it is somewhat more caustic than either deserves. In The Secular City, Cox carried the theology of Reinhold Niehbur one step too far. Like Niebuhr, Cox recognized the need for "toughness" in the face of the 20th Century challenges. But unlike Niehbuhr who endorsed pragmatism with fear and trembling. Cox embraced it with enormous enthusiasm...
John Kennedy, according to both Wills and Cox, was the Secular City man par excellence. He was tough and grappled with problems without any ideological preconceptions. We know now that the problem with the Secular City, anti-ideological approach was its lack of any firm moral underpinnings...
...problem with Wills's analysis lies in its failure to deal adequately with these New Frontier Christians who were genuinely disturbed by their failure and went Left. Cox. He notes, "had rediscovered the irrational-though typically, he tried to limit it to irrational celebration and festivity." In fact, Cox had gone further than that, endorsing the politically radical and critical form of Christianity which Wills himself supports. Similarly, Robert Kennedy went far to the Left of his brother in his 1968 campaign...
...Cox "praised" Nixon's running mate as "a man of excellent qualities," and said he looked forward to working in the Nixon campaign in any of three divisions--" espionage, forgery or phony demonstrating...