Harvey Cox
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American academic
Baptist theologian
Christian theologian
Harvard University faculty member
human
theologian
Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harvey Cox canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4930563 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvey Cox Context triple: [Paul Tillich, hasInfluenced, Harvey Cox]
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Stanley Grenz
Stanley Grenz was an influential late-20th-century evangelical theologian known for his work in systematic theology, postmodern theology, and especially his development of a relational, community-focused doctrine of the Trinity.
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Ian Barbour
Ian Barbour was a pioneering scholar in the field of science and religion, renowned for his influential work on the relationship between scientific inquiry and Christian theology.
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J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
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D.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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Robert F. Goheen
Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvey Cox Target entity description: Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
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A.
Stanley Grenz
Stanley Grenz was an influential late-20th-century evangelical theologian known for his work in systematic theology, postmodern theology, and especially his development of a relational, community-focused doctrine of the Trinity.
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B.
Ian Barbour
Ian Barbour was a pioneering scholar in the field of science and religion, renowned for his influential work on the relationship between scientific inquiry and Christian theology.
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C.
J. Tinsley Oden
J. Tinsley Oden was a pioneering computational and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
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D.
William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin was an influential American Christian clergyman and social activist best known for his leadership in the civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements.
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E.
Robert F. Goheen
Robert F. Goheen was an American classicist and academic leader best known for serving as the transformative 16th president of Princeton University from 1957 to 1972.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American academic
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Baptist theologian ⓘ Christian theologian ⓘ Harvard University faculty member ⓘ human ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
Christian ethics
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religious studies ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Lilienfeld Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| denomination | American Baptist Churches USA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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University of Pennsylvania ⓘ Yale Divinity School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Harvard Divinity School
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
interfaith dialogue
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liberation theology ⓘ public theology ⓘ secularization ⓘ sociology of religion ⓘ urban theology ⓘ |
| givenName | Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary urban theology
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debates on secularization theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
NERFINISHED
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Karl Barth NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Tillich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Christian left NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Harvey Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fire from Heaven
NERFINISHED
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Religion in the Secular City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Feast of Fools NERFINISHED ⓘ The Future of Faith NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secular City NERFINISHED ⓘ The Silencing of Leonardo Boff NERFINISHED ⓘ When Jesus Came to Harvard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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theologian ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Cambridge, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Hollis Research Professor of Divinity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Baptist NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| theologicalTradition |
Protestant theology
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liberal theology ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Harvey Cox Description of subject: Harvey Cox is an American Baptist theologian and Harvard Divinity School professor emeritus best known for his influential works on secularization, urban theology, and the role of religion in contemporary society, including the landmark book "The Secular City."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.