The Market as God
Harvey Cox notes that, of all of his writings, this commentary in the March 1999 issue of The Atlantic yielded the most letters and publicity.
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Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide
October 18, 2007
In 1965, a young Harvard professor became the best-selling voice of secularism in America with his book The Secular City. He sees the old thinking in the "new atheism" of figures like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. The either/or debates between religion and atheism, he says, obscure the truly interesting interplay between faith and other forms of knowledge that is unfolding today.
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Cox is Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and author of many books, including When Jesus Came to Harvard.
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