David Lee discusses the Eucharist, tracing it from Jewish sacrifice and the early community meal through medieval excommunication and relics to modern lay participation, and notes its appeal to non-realists.
David Lee reviews Andrew Brown and Linda Woodhead’s That Was the Church that Was, rejecting its account of Church of England decline and offering a longer view of the church’s capacity to reinvent itself.
Review of John Caputo’s The Insistence of God, which presents God as an insistent event or ‘perhaps’ calling for hospitality rather than an existing being, read from a theological non-realist standpoint alongside Don Cupitt’s A...
David Lee defends the condemned heretic Pelagius against Augustine on original sin and human goodness, while arguing that theological non-realism helps explain how absolutist narratives breed atrocity.
David Lee contrasts a humanist funeral, a clerical requiem and a church funeral for an ordinary churchgoer, and proposes words that bridge grief and the Burial Office by speaking of God within us.
David Lee presents Lord Acton’s opposition to the political and moral consequences of papal infallibility and his dictum on power, and argues infallibility is naive realism that leads to moral blindness.
David S. Lee reviews Mary Warnock’s Dishonest to God, which argues morality is a human creation separate from religion in lawmaking. He criticises her narrow idea of faith and her handling of biblical ethics.
David Lee reads Psalm 119 as a meditation on human law and the psalmist’s God as personification of law, arguing the psalm fits a view of God as human creation rather than an absolute being.
David Lee argues that the Bible’s images of God, its dreams and wisdom, and the human Jesus as teacher fit God as a product of human imagination, and urges renewed emphasis on Jesus’s humanity.
