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 three influential twentieth-century accounts of love — Nygren’s agape and eros, Lewis’s four loves, and Fromm’s art of loving — and argues Fromm speaks best to our situation 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.
I first encountered Ernst Simon Bloch (1885–1977) while studying Jürgen Moltmann, Johannes Metz, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and Gustavo Gutiérrez, as commentators linked these theologians’ work to Bloch’s philosophy of hope. Although the theologians were better known...
These ‘Network Matters’ pages explore various aspects of the charitable work of the Sea of Faith (SoF) Network. In this edition, we focus on the Network’s publications. Publishing was at the heart of Don Cupitt’s...
These pages will consider an aspect of the Network’s work in each edition. This edition considers the Sofia and its aim. The Charity The Sea of Faith Network is an educational charity that exists ‘to...
The widow Sophia and her daughters, Faith Hope, and Love, are said to have lived in the first or second century and to have been martyred in Rome in one of the Christian persecutions, perhaps...
The study of religion in everyday life, as developed within the fields of sociology and practical theology, challenges us to reevaluate and redefine our understanding of religion. In sociology, the French la religion vécue of...
Living Faith This year marks the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the First Congress of The International Council of Unitarian and Other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers. Hosted in London (26 May—3 June 1901),...
