In the broadcast of “Mysticism: The Future of Religion?” Professor Barfoot interviews Harvey Cox the writer of the book “The Future of Faith”. Harvey Cox was a professor at Harvard University that was the Hollis Professor of Divinity until he retired in 2009. In Harvey Cox’s book “The Future of Faith” he splits the history of Christianity into three different eras. The three eras are the Age of Faith, Age of Belief, and the Age of Spirit. During the Age of Faith was when Christianity had just begun and was a period where Christians abided by Jesus’s spirit. Moreover, the Age of belief was during the Council of Nicaea all the way until the 20th century when Christians focused on the dogma of Jesus. While the Age of Spirit is currently in the present as Christians have embraced God’s spirit through movements of Pentecostalism that is spreading on a global scale. Harvey Cox’s contribution to the understanding of mysticism is that people will become less dependent on any particular religious institution. That individuals can have a mystical
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That people are becoming spiritual instead of religious because people are being excluded. They believe religious authority is corrupt and don’t want them dictating what is morally correct or wrong. For example, people that are spiritual, but not religious do not like that homosexuals are being discriminated in religion. In addition, the five major religions are no longer segregated to specific continents anymore that they are becoming globalized. As religions are reducing their dependency on religious hierarchies. Moreover, religious individuals currently are more interested in moral guidelines than the dogmas of a religion. Consequently, religious institutions are not as patriarchal, since women are now able to obtain leadership roles. As women are able to write commentaries on religious books and become pastors of
That people are becoming spiritual instead of religious because people are being excluded. They believe religious authority is corrupt and don’t want them dictating what is morally correct or wrong. For example, people that are spiritual, but not religious do not like that homosexuals are being discriminated in religion. In addition, the five major religions are no longer segregated to specific continents anymore that they are becoming globalized. As religions are reducing their dependency on religious hierarchies. Moreover, religious individuals currently are more interested in moral guidelines than the dogmas of a religion. Consequently, religious institutions are not as patriarchal, since women are now able to obtain leadership roles. As women are able to write commentaries on religious books and become pastors of