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...
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...
Don Cupitt offers his opening words in his recent debate with Brian Hebblethwaite as ‘a very short and simple statement of my current views’. Until the late seventeenth century West Europeans still lived in a...
The historical truth is that we created God. say, briefly, that it is not science but history that has been the main reason for the breakdown of the old Christian world-view. By the sixteenth century...
Don Cupitt gave this talk to the Sea of Faith (NZ) Conference on October 2006. In his book, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912; English translation. 1915), the great French sociologist Emile Durkheim...
Learning to Live without ‘Identity’ ‘Today, more than ever, we need a truly world religion; a religion that is free from the impulse to conquer and convert others,’ says Don Cupitt in this talk given...
Religion after the West In his talk to the North London SoF Group in January, Don Cupitt drew from his forthcoming book Impossible Loves. During the past decade or so I have become gradually more...
Richard Holloway was born to poor working-class parents – his father was a dyemaker – in the West of Scotland. He joined a strict Anglican order when he was 14. His first parish as an...
In about the year 1960, as a young curate in a South Lancashire parish, I was privileged to witness what may have been one of the last great examples of the traditional Catholic culture of...
The Sea of Faith, twenty years after by Don Cupitt The Sea of Faith first appeared in September and October of 1984 as a series of six 50-minute documentary films shown in prime time on...
