Книга: Harvey Cox «Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-first Century»
It was born at the turn of the twentieth century in a rundown warehouse on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. For days the religious-revival service there went on and on-and within a week the Los Angeles Times was reporting on a "weird babble" coming from the building. Believers were "speaking in tongues," the way they did at the first Pentecost recorded in the Bible-and a Pentecostal movement was created that would by the start of the twenty-first century attract over 400 million followers worldwide. Harvey Cox has traveled the globe to visit and worship with pentecostal congregations on four continents, and he has written a dynamic, provocative history of this explosion of spirituality-a movement that represents no less than a tidal change in what religion is and what it means to people. Daniel Mark Epstein, the acclaimed biographer of the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, praises Fire from Heaven as "a breathtaking story [written] with a novelist's feel for history, a philosopher's... Издательство: "Da Capo" (2001) Формат: 150x230, 364 стр.
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Harvey Cox
Harvey Gallagher Cox, Jr. (born
After a stint in the U.S. Merchant Marine, Cox attended the
Cox was ordained as an American Baptist minister in 1957, and started teaching as an assistant
Cox became widely known with the publication of "The Secular City" in 1965. It became immensely popular and influential for a book on theology, selling over one million copies. Cox developed the thesis that the church is primarily a people of faith and action, rather than an institution. He argued that "God is just as present in the secular as the religious realms of life". Far from being a protective religious community, the church should be in the forefront of change in society, celebrating the new ways religiosity is finding expression in the world. Phrases such as "intrinsic conservatism prevents the denominational churches from leaving their palaces behind and stepping into God's permanent revolution in history" (p. 206) can be viewed as threatening to the "
In Taylor Branch's history, "Parting the Waters", Branch notes that Cox hosted a dinner at which Martin Luther King, Jr. was introduced to people who would become some of his closest colleagues and advisors as a civil rights activist.
Books
* "The Secular City: Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective" (1965), Collier Books, 25th anniversary edition 1990: ISBN 0-02-031155-9
* "God's Revolution and Man's Responsibilities" (1966) no ISBN issued
* "The Feast of Fools: A Theological Essay on Festivity and Fantasy" (1969), Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-29525-0, Harper & Row 1970 paperback: ISBN 0-06-080272-3, HarperCollins 2000 paperback: ISBN 0-06-090212-4
*"The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion" (1973), Touchstone edition 1985: ISBN 0-671-21728-3
*"Turning East: Why Americans Look to the Orient for Spirituallity-And What That Search Can Mean to the West" (1978), Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-24405-1
* "Religion in the Secular City: Toward a Postmodern Theology", (1985), Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0-671-52805-X
* "Many Mansions: A Christian's Encounter with Other Faiths" (1988), Beacon Press reprint 1992: ISBN 0-8070-1213-0
* "The Silencing of
* "Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Re-shaping of Religion in the 21st Century", (1994), Decapo Press reprint 2001: ISBN 0-306-81049-2
* "Religion in a Secular City: Essays in Honor of Harvey Cox", Harvey Cox, Arvind Sharma editors, (2001), Trinity Press, ISBN 1-56338-337-3
* "When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral Choices Today", (2004), Houghton Mifflin, ISBN 0-618-06744-2 (hardcover)
External links
* [http://www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty/cox.html Official page at Harvard Divinity School]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941039,00.html?iid=chix-sphere Time magazine profile] of April, 1965
Источник: Harvey Cox
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