Harvey Cox, Jr. — Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide

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On Being : Harvey Cox, Jr. — Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide Image

Harvey Cox, Jr. — Beyond the Atheism-Religion Divide

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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.