Author: John Challenor

John Challenor

Sofia, Reviews

The God Delusion

This is a rich collection of material, presented variously – logical arguments, comments on the current scene, case-studies, jokes – all in a vigorous, engaging way, with verve, con brio, even gung-ho. Dawkins’ stated purpose...

1 March 2007

Sofia, Reviews

Earthly Powers

Don Cupitt called his book The Sea of Faith, but it is the sub-title – Christianity in Change – which gives the clearer picture of the contents. ‘For those caught up in it,’ Don wrote...

1 January 2007

Sofia

No Turning Back

I was ordained priest in June, 1955, aged 32. My experience of the world of the 1940s as soldier, student and teacher had convinced me that to live a conventional life would be madness. The...

1 November 2005

Sofia, Reviews

John Challenor reviews Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited

John Challenor reviews Varieties of Religion Today: William James Revisited by Charles Taylor Harvard University Press, 2002, pp.144, £13.95 (Cloth) ISBN 0-674-00760-3 Listed by Richard Rorty as ‘among the dozen most important philosophers writing today,...

1 November 2002

Sofia

SoF and the Roman Tradition

SoF and the ROMAN TRADITION John Challenor The second in our series on some of the streams which feed the Sea of Faith, written from within the tradition in question. John Challenor is Chair of...

1 March 1995

Sofia

Privatise, or Publicise?

John Challenor The trend in religion is to privatisation, the free market, consumer choice. Examples abound : * half a million people in Britain stopped going to church in the 80s. * the House Church...

1 June 1991