When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today.Harvey Cox Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. (born March 19, 1929 in Malvern, Pennsylvania) is one of the preeminent theologians in the United States and serves as professor of divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers , 2004, 338pp. Since this engaging memoir-treatise deals with the challenges of teaching a course on "Jesus and the Moral Life" to (mostly) secular-minded undergraduates, it might just as well have been called When Jesus Came to Hofstra; but ... oh, you know. Cox spends far more time introducing "Jesus the rabbi" to students and picking the brains of his Harvard colleagues (including a Jesuit chaplain who revolutionizes his prayer-life) and other religious scholars than he does delving into either Christology or contemporary moral issues. Jesus, he argues, typically plies plies 1 v. Third person singular present tense of ply1. n. Plural of ply1. his questioners with more questions, and sends his listeners off with stories, rather than formulas, to guide their lives by. There are some sloppy factual errors; but by and large this is a thoughtful, relaxed visiting-revisiting of the Gospels for the general reader, along with tales of Cox's own evolution from the devout de·vout adj. de·vout·er, de·vout·est 1. Devoted to religion or to the fulfillment of religious obligations. See Synonyms at religious. 2. Displaying reverence or piety. 3. little boy in a hyper-Protestant Pennsylvania hamlet to the sprightly spright·ly adj. spright·li·er, spright·li·est Full of spirit and vitality; lively; brisk. adv. In a lively, animated manner. spright , bearded, liberal sage ministering to, and wrestling alongside of, a throng of multi-cultural seekers in Babel-on-the-Charles. As always, Cox is cheerful, warm-hearted, youthfully eager to learn and exchange perspectives; his students must have eaten him up. |
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