Contents Editorial Articles Reviews Regulars Regulars Love by Paul Overend | editor@sofn.uk This edition of Sofia is inspired by the third of the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, which derive from the...
Paul Overend compares Nygren’s agape versus eros, C.S. Lewis’s four loves and Erich Fromm’s humanistic Art of Loving, concluding Fromm’s non-theistic account best fits today.
Sofia magazine issue 160, June 2026. Theme: Hope. Includes articles by Christiane van Duuren, Paul Overend, Andy Kemp, Dave Francis, Denise Cush, Katy Jennison, David Boulton, Digby Hartridge, Teresa Wallace. Download the full PDF.
Ernst Bloch’s philosophy of hope: he reads the Bible politically, treats atheism as the precondition of messianic hope, and values religion as a source of ‘concrete utopia’. Contrasted with Moltmann’s theology of hope.
Survey of Sea of Faith Network publications from 1995 to the forthcoming A Philosophy of Life: The Spirituality of Don Cupitt (2027), with their editors and contributors. Profits from the new book support the Network’s...
Network Matters column on the Network’s educational charity purpose and Sofia’s aims. It reviews critiques of the World Religions Paradigm, lived religion, religious literacy and the Religion and Worldviews approach.
Short note on the legend of Saint Sophia and her daughters Faith, Hope and Love, suggesting they personify the theological virtues and the idea of virtues as offspring of divine wisdom.
Introduces ‘lived religion’ as a field in sociology and practical theology, covering Le Bras, Orsi and Gräb, and religion understood as individual meaning-making in everyday life. Launches a Sofia column of that name.
Editorial marking 125 years since the 1901 liberal religious congress in London. It discusses faith and reason through Aquinas’s ‘living faith’, links this to ethics-centred religion, and introduces the issue’s contents and the new editor’s...
