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Still another criticism of the theology of violence comes from, of all people, Dr. Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity School. The very model of the committed cleric, Cox was co-chairman of the Detroit conference on Church and Society. In his bestselling The Secular City, he stressed the need for a relevant Christianity, and for an avant-garde church that would be "a sign of the emergent city of man." Now Cox feels that the churches are beginning to overstress involvement at the expense of inner religious experience. "Once you transform everything into a mission for social action...
Last week Cox delivered the first comprehensive statement of his new perspective in a three-part lecture series at Harvard on "The Secular Search for Religious Experience." In his first two talks, he dwelled on what he called the root problem of contemporary religion-the "immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting...
...gladly anticipate the future without sacrificing one to the other. Christ has come to previous generations of men in various guises, as teacher, judge, healer. Now, in a new or really an old but recaptured guise, Christ has begun to make an unexpected entrance onto the stage of modern secular life. Enter Christ the harlequin: the symbol of festivity and fantasy in an age which has almost lost both...
Each of the non-denominational, hour-long programs will attempt to make religion relevant to some contemporary secular issue, organizers John T. McLoughlin '70 and Thomas B. Campion '70 said yesterday...
Regular features of the services will be devotional and secular readings, silent meditation, and programs encouraging the audience's response...