Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secularization of religious thought, typified by Harvey Cox's The Secular City...
...number of earlier schools of philosophy and theology that have attempted to explain man's role in the secular-Hegel and Whitehead, the process theologians, the existentialists and evolutionary thinkers like Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The problematic relationship between the sacred and secular is described in Harvey Cox's influential 1965 book The Secular City as "the loosing of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the breaking of all myths and supernatural symbols." If anywhere, Christ might only be sought through humanistic action in the world...
...theologians are hardly alone in recommending the rediscovery of joy to a new generation of believers. In fact, the emphasis on the Dionysian element in life-celebration, song, dance, laughter-is fast acquiring a theology of its own. In The Feast of Fools, Harvey Cox presents Christ as clown and Christianity as comedy, because the world "should not be taken with ultimate or final seriousness." Theologian Sam Keen, 38, pleads a similar case in Apology for Wonder. While he believes that "the wise man is a dancer," he insists that the "authentic" man temper his ecstasy with a sense...
...Cox described the demonstrators as "young, shaggy, and bearded." but could not identify them. "To be perfectly frank I was upset," Cox said. "But the class continued after. They left. The class was perfectly splendid...
...second year Law student, said that the demonstrators appeared in the back of the class at the beginning of the period, "After about 20 minutes they began to drift forward, passing out bread and Christmas candy and saying 'Merry Christmas Richard Kleindienst and Spiro Agnew.' They completely ignored Cox the whole time," he said...