Cox The Secular City

Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective
With a New introduction by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4885-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 408 Seiten

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Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including most recently The Future of Faith (HarperCollins). The Secular City, his first book, has sold nearly a million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including most recently The Future of Faith (HarperCollins). The Secular City, his first book, has sold nearly a million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, Harvey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the New Edition xi

The Secular City: Twenty-Five Years Later xli

Acknowledgments lix

Introduction: The Epoch of the Secular City 1

PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE SECULAR CITY 19

1 The Biblical Sources of Secularization 21

- Secularization vs. Secularism 22

- Dimensions of Secularization 26

- Creation as the Disenchantment of Nature 26

- The Exodus as the Desacralization of Politics 30

- The Sinai Covenant as the Deconsecration of Values 37

2 The Shape of the Secular City 46

- Anonymity 47

- The Man at the Giant Switchboard 49

- Anonymity as Deliverance from the Law 56

Mobility 60

- The Man in the Cloverleaf 62

- Yahweh and the Baalim 65

3 The Style of the Secular City 72

- John F. Kennedy and Pragmatism 74

- Albert Camus and Profanity 84

- Tillich, Barth, and the Secular Style 94

4 The Secular City in Cross-Cultural Perspective 102

- New Delhi and India 104

- Rome and Western Europe 107

- Prague and Eastern Europe 110

- Boston and the United States 114

PART TWO: THE CHURCH IN THE SECULAR CITY 123

5 Toward a Theology of Social Change 125

- The Kingdom of God and the Secular City 131

- Anatomy of a Revolutionary Theology 135

6 The Church as God's Avant-garde 148

- The Church's Kerygmatic Function: Broadcasting the Seizure of Power 151

- The Church's Diakonic Function: Healing the Urban Fractures 157

- The Church's Koinoniac Function: Making Visible the City of Man 171

7 The Church as Cultural Exorcist 177

PART THREE: EXCURSIONS IN URBAN EXORCISM 195

8 Work and Play in the Secular City 197

- The Separation of Places of Work and Residence 198

- The Bureaucratic Organization of Work 204

- The Emancipation of Work from Religion 214

9 Sex and Secularization 227

- The Residue of Tribalism 228

- Remnants of Town Virtues 242

10 The Church and the Secular University 257

PART FOUR: GOD AND THE SECULAR MAN 283

11 To Speak in a Secular Fashion of God 285

- Speaking of God as a Sociological Problem 288

- Speaking of God as a Political Issue 294

- Speaking of God as a Theological Question 304

Bibliography 321

Index 329

Über Autor(innen)

Harvey Cox is Hollis Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. He is the author of many books, including most recently The Future of Faith (HarperCollins). The Secular City, his first book, has sold nearly a million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages.