Books, Arts & Manners: The Case of the Baffled Professor

Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostalism, Spirituality, and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century, by Harvey Cox (Addison-Wesley, 332 pp., $23)

ALAS FOR THE brevity of human fame. In the Sixties the Harvard theologian Harvey Cox was famous for a book called Religion in the Secular City. That book welcomed the modern world as a Christian epiphany and was designed to address the needs of a religionless society, such as some academic sages of that time confidently predicted. Indeed, some thought Mr. Cox himself one of those sages, and he was generally said to have provided a sociological extension of the writings of the “Death of God” set.

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Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostalism, Spirituality, and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century, by Harvey Cox (Addison-Wesley, 332 pp., $23)

ALAS FOR THE brevity of human fame. In the Sixties the Harvard theologian Harvey Cox was famous for a book called Religion in the Secular City. That book welcomed the modern world as a Christian epiphany and was designed to address the needs of a religionless society, such as some academic sages of that time confidently predicted. Indeed, some thought Mr. Cox himself one of those sages, and he was generally said to have provided a sociological extension of the writings of the “Death of God” set.