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Lifelines
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2012
321 kr
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'If you are one of those who persist in thinking that the old questions about the meaning of life, however badly framed they were, had something important behind them, then the answer offered here is that there is indeed such a thing as the religious life, that it has a variety of different …
Crisis of Moral Authority
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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This book was written in 1970, in the days when even the Church Times was welcoming Don Cupitt as a stalwart believer. However, as the author now points out, it is an important pointer to the future. The straitlaced early Cupitt is obviously struggling to prevent the later Cupitt from bursting …
What is a Story?
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2012
311 kr
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Western thought began with an attack on religious myth by philosophers who held that the highest truth must be non-narrative and timeless. They left a paradox to haunt us: for on the one hand everyone knows that stories are important to us and our religion is full of them, while on the other hand …
Creation Out of Nothing
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2012
381 kr
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Don Cupitt reinterprets the traditional doctrine that the world has been created out of nothing by the divine Word. He shows how recent developments in thought have led to the rediscovery both of nihilism and of the creative power of language. Cupitt undertakes extended examinations of the relation …
Time Being
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 1992
363 kr
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Don Cupitt describes time-pessimism as the spiritual disorder of the age, and its cure as the prime task of postmodern religious thought. We must redeem and revalue time, transience and this mortal life of ours. He believes that it can be done. It really can be done.
Last Philosophy
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2012
290 kr
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In this new book, for the first time Don Cupitt sets out his own systematic philosophy of life. He is reviving an old question: how far in the direction of religious belief, and eternal happiness, is it possible to go on the basis of reason alone? His 'expressionist' philosophy leads him to …
Solar Ethics
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 1995
198 kr
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Don Cupitt's ethics may seem strange and furious; but he says that this is a religious ethic to fit the truth about the world and our own life as we now understand it.
Revelation of Being
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 1998
198 kr
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When Don Cupitt was struck by a very brief yet violent religious experience he wrote a note about it on the spot. Now in retrospective analysis of that moment he develops a postmodern vision of the world and the human condition.
Meaning of it All in Everyday Speech
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 1999
253 kr
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In his Everyday Speech books, Don Cupitt is introducing a new empirical way of doing theology by showing from ordinary language what religious outlook currently belongs to us all. In The New Religion of Life in Everyday Speech he showed from current idioms how life itself has recently become the …
Philosophy's Own Religion
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2000
283 kr
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In this book Don Cupitt presents his systematic philosophy of religion, describing his own position as combining nihilism with radical humanism , and as a language-mediated radical religious humanism. From this he derives philosophy's own religion.
Taking Leave of God
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2001
341 kr
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This was the book which first garnered international celebrity and notoriety for its author and which fire-started a debate about the supernatural claims of Christianity. Rejecting Christian doctrines and metaphysics in favour of the religious consciousness which characterises human identity, …
Sea of Faith
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2003
398 kr
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The Sea of Faith made a huge impact when it was first published to accompany a major television series in the mid 1980's. For a generation that was embodying the ebbing of the tide of faith, it articulated the huge intellectual and cultural shifts that had resulted in most people no longer having …
Old Creed and the New
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2006
381 kr
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The Old Creed and the New, is Don Cupitt's return to the UK market, after a five year absence, with a successor to his earlier works, which can be seen as the next stage in his long project to modernise religious thought.Here he sharply juxtaposes the traditional Apostles' Creed of Western …
Meaning of the West
An Apologia for Secular Christianity
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2008
363 kr
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Don Cupitt proposes a reinterpretation of Christian history, arguing that the meaning of the West is not Catholic Christian, but radical Christian. The original Jesus was a secular figure, a utopian teacher of ethical wisdom. He argues that the core of Western culture is simply the old Christian …
Jesus and Philosophy
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2009
324 kr
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Around twenty years or so after his death, the fiery and interesting Jewish teacher Jesus of Nazareth was made into the personification of his own teaching, and given an exalted cosmic status. Within a few decades he had been so completely buried by supernatural beliefs about himself that in all …
Theology's Strange Return
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2010
326 kr
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For two centuries and more our culture has been secular, and no religious doctrine now plays a constitutive part in any established branch of knowledge. Yet if God is dead, he won’t lie down, and reminders of the old faith still pervade our language, the built environment, our art and our …
Fountain
A Secular Theology
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2010
290 kr
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During the past 30 years, what we used to call ‘the passing show of existence’ has turned into a global torrent of electronic communication and cultural change. Everywhere, Tradition is collapsing. Local fundamentalist reactions – hailed by some as evidence that ‘God is back’ – cannot hope to stem …
Turns of Phrase
Radical Theology from A-Z
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2011
326 kr
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In 40 years of writing Don Cupitt has coined many new words and phrases to communicate his ideas, but he has written so much that critics have split him up into stages, and readers complain of obscurity. Piqued, he here represents an entertaining ‘Devil’s Dictionary’ of his own ideas, with …
Last Testament
Av Don Cupitt
Häftad, 2012
345 kr
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Do you envy the suicide bombers their firm faith in life after death? Probably not: you think they are deluded. People in the west have quite recently lost all their old ideas about a Better World Hereafter. We now accept that we are already in the Last World, the world with no further reality …
Fountain
A Secular Theology
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2014
92 kr
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Everywhere, Tradition is collapsing. Local fundamentalist reactions - hailed by some as evidence that ''God is back'' - cannot hope to stem the flood. In our time, Don Cupitt says, religion is no longer about gaining immortality, or the forgiveness of our sins: it is about becoming reconciled to …
Turns of Phrase
Radical Theology from A-Z
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2014
106 kr
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Presents a Devil''s Dictionary of the author''s own ideas, with cross-links from entry to entry guiding the reader around his system. This title points out that the non-arrival of the Kingdom left the early Christians looking up vigilantly towards a better world that was yet to come.
Jesus and Philosophy
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2013
254 kr
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Around twenty years or so after his death, the fiery and interesting Jewish teacher Jesus of Nazareth was made into the personification of his own teaching, and given an exalted cosmic status. Within a few decades he had been so completely buried by supernatural beliefs about himself that in all …
Sea of Faith
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2013
299 kr
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This text began in the 1860s as a phrase from Matthew Arnold''s picture of the decline of religion as the retreat of the tide on Dover''s beach. The book has had a significant impact, for its account of historical developments and its presentation of Christian non-realism.
Last Testament
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2015
145 kr
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Considers the traditional Christian ideas of the hereafter against modern beliefs, arguing that we need not the New Testament message but a Last Testament for the Last World that we live in.
Meaning of the West
An Apologia for Secular Christianity
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2013
158 kr
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Don Cupitt proposes a reinterpretation of Christian history, arguing that the meaning of the West is not Catholic Christian, but radical Christian. The original Jesus was a secular figure, a utopian teacher of ethical wisdom. He argues that the core of Western culture is simply the old Christian …
Taking Leave of God
Av Don Cupitt
E-bok, 2014
299 kr
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Rejecting Christian doctrines and metaphysics in favour of the religious consciousness which characterizes human identity, Cupitt "takes leave" of God by abandoning objective theism.
Mysticism After Modernity
Av Don Cupitt
Inbunden, 1997
1969 kr
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In Mysticism After Modernity, Don Cupitt argues that the extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested upon a mistake - the belief that there can be meaningful experience prior to language.
Mysticism After Modernity
Av Don Cupitt, Don Cupitt
Häftad, 1997
731 kr
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In Mysticism After Modernity, Don Cupitt argues that the extensive modern literature about mysticism has rested upon a mistake - the belief that there can be meaningful experience prior to language.
Is Nothing Sacred?
The Non-Realist Philosophy of Religion: Selected Essays
Av Don Cupitt
Inbunden, 2002
818 kr
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Don Cupitt is best known for developing a non-realistic interpretation of Christian doctrine and an ever-more radically antirealist position in philosophy.Cupitt has sought to go beyond ecclesiastical religion to a purely this-worldly humanistic religion of life: he argues for a "kingdom" version …
