When Jesus Came to Harvard - Making Moral Choices Today

Informationen zum Autor HARVEY COX is the author of the groundbreaking The Secular City and many other books, including The Seduction of the Spirit, which was nominated for the National Book Award. A professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext In this urgently relevant, wholly enlightening discussion of modern moral decisions, the Harvard theology professor Harvey Cox considers the significance of Jesus and his teachings today. As he did in his undergraduate class Jesus and the Moral Life?a course that grew so popular that the lectures were held in a theater often used for rock concerts?Cox examines contemporary dilemmas in the light of lessons gleaned from the Gospels. Invigorating and incisive, this book encourages an intellectual approach to faith and inspires a clear way of thinking about moral choices for all of us.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey Cox, Harvey Gallagher Cox
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.08.2006
• EAN: 9780618710546
• ISBN: 978-0-618-71054-6
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION: History, PHILOSOPHY: Religious, RELIGION: Islam / History, HISTORY: Jewish, RELIGION: Judaism / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology of Religion, RELIGION: THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION: Judaism / Theology, RELIGION: Hinduism / Theology, RELIGION: Faith, RELIGION: Islam / Theology, RELIGION: Hinduism / History