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After a stint in the U.S. Merchant Marine , Cox attended the University Of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1951 with a BA degree with honors in History . He went on to earn a Bachelor Of Divinity degree from the Yale University Divinity School in 1955 , and a PhD in the history and philosophy of religion from Harvard University in 1963 . Cox was ordained as an American Baptist Minister in 1957 , and started teaching as an assistant Professor at the Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts . He then began teaching at the Harvard Divinity School in 1965 and in 1969 became a full professor. 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 '' Status Quo '', and for some an embrace of the social revolution of the 1960s. BOOKS
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