Anthony Freeman reviews Daphne Hampson’s After Christianity, which argues from a feminist standpoint that Christianity is both immoral and untrue. He praises her critique of the Trinity but faults her opening chapters and her inconsistencies.
Anthony Freeman reviews John Polkinghorne’s Belief in God in an Age of Science, disputing Polkinghorne’s critical realism and the parallel between quantum duality and the two natures of Christ, and arguing for a constructive view...
Contents Articles Poetry Editorial EDITORIAL I am sorry that my last edition of SoF magazine should be the most solid-looking one ever, but I am not sorry for the reason — that this year’s conference...
Contents Articles Reviews Editorial EDITORIAL There is a tendency for a movement like the Sea of Faith to become a little turned in on itself, and develop its own ‘orthodoxy’ which is every bit as...
Anthony Freeman reviews Gerard Loughlin’s Telling God’s Story, on narrative theology and postmodernism. He agrees that nothing lies outside our stories but rejects Don Cupitt’s nihilism, while noting narrative theology’s problem of insularity.
Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Editorial EDITORIAL n important task of SoF magazine is to provide members of the network with material to help in your own ‘exploring and promoting of religious faith as a human...
A review of Don Cupitt’s Solar Ethics (SCM, 1995). The reviewer enjoys its picture of life as outpouring, but objects that Cupitt dismisses everyday morality and offers no practical guidance on social justice, terrorism or...
Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Regulars and Occasionals Editorial TOOTH FAIRIES AND SANTA hen Canon Brian Andrews told his congregation that ‘the money under our pillows and the presents in our stockings were put there by...
Contents Articles Poetry Editorial EDITORIAL It has been gently pointed out by one or two friends that this, my first SoF Magazine in the editor’s chair, has come out a week or two late. But...
Anthony Freeman reports a year after being sacked as a Church of England priest for his book God in Us: housing, work, new confidence in his beliefs, and his debate with the Bishop of Oxford.
