This interview was first published in the 2018 Edition of the Emmanuel College Magazine. The complete magazine is available here. Linda Woodhead is a Sociologist of Religion, F.D. Maurice Professor in Moral and Social Theology...
At the very end of his new book Creative Faith: Religion as a Way of World-Making, Don Cupitt puts a note reference to this, the book’s final note. I end with a brief note of...
Don Cupitt gave this talk to the London SOF Conference in September 2013. I am a secular Christian, a person committed to the critical way of thinking and a person therefore for whom there is...
Christ and the Hiddenness of God, Lutterworth (Cambridge 1971)* | Crisis of Moral Authority, Lutterworth (1972)* | The Leap of Reason, SPCK Sheldon Press (London 1976)* | The Worlds of Science and Religion, SPCK (1976)...
The Kingdom, the Power, the Glory … and the Morning Star Behind the name Lucifer is a long and curious story. The planet Venus, being so much closer to the Sun than Earth is, often...
Everything is always in flux. Call my energetic Spinozism watery, if you like, in contrast to Spinoza’s dryness. The Fountain metaphor applies these ideas of the continual coming-forth of all temporal Be-ing, to Big-Bang- cosmology,...
Religion and Social Justice editorial The Idea of God as our Maker Two extracts from Don Cupitt’s new book Theology’s Strange Return brilliantly describe how it was our idea of God that made us humans...
God Secularises Himself Five Extracts from Don’s Cupitt’s new book The Meaning of the West The modern West, I am arguing, is the legacy of Christianity, and in particular of two central doctrines: the creation...
The meaning of ‘the West’ is defined by the Vatican in terms of the Catholic Church, the West’s oldest and greatest institution, and by the French secularists at the EU in terms of the values...
My eyes are failing now, but for most of my life I had excellent vision. There were two reasons for this: one was that I had good visual acuity – ‘better than twenty-twenty’ as optometrists...
