Author: Paul Overend

  • Paul Overend

    Paul Overend is editor of Sofia (and formerly SoF), the Sea of Faith magazine, and the lead editor of the Sea of Faith book, A Philosophy of Life: The Spirituality of Don Cupitt (2027). Reading Cupitt and other radical theologians, alongside mystical spirituality and monastic theology, led him to study theology and seek ordination. His PhD in Philosophy (2004) was on the ethics of Emmanuel Lévinas. As a priest, for 30 years, he worked in various roles in theological education and ministerial training. More recent courses in Existential Psychotherapy (NSPC) and Buddhist Psychology (ITZI) also informed his understanding of spirituality.

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Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia

159 – Faith

Contents Editorial Articles Arts & Religion Regulars Editorial: Living Faith Letters Please send letters to our Letters Editor, Stephen Mitchell letters@sofn.uk I congratulate the departing editor, David, on the Sofia series on Resistance. The last...

Sofia

Don Cupitt on Political Agency and Social Resistance

Paul Overend takes an overview of Cupitt’s framing of subjectivity as historically situated and contingent, and his ethics as involving both solar personal ethics, spirituality and humanitarian social ethics. He considers the subject’s agency in...

Sofia

On ‘Worship’ and Worth

PRE-PUBLICATION OFFER Receive Wrestling With God for just £9.95 (post free in UK) by ordering direct before December 20, 2006. Quote “Sofia Offer” Email: Sandra@imprint.co.uk Phone: 01392 851550 Fax 01392 851187 Imprint Academic PO Box...

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

67 – The Sea of Faith: 20 Years On

Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Editorial Guest Editorial Ronald Pearse For those of us who were adults half a century ago, the year 1984 had ominous advance overtones that lasted for many years. | 984 was...

Sofia

What the Papers Said in 1984

Alan Goss is a retired Presbyterian Minister in New Zealand. He is a member of a local Sea of Faith Group and has served on the National Steering Committee. sof 67 September 2004 What the...

Sofia

Flotsam and Jetsam

Sof 66 july 2004 Flotsa Apologies to Americans The editorial of SOF 65 accused ‘front-page headlines’ of ‘ignoring the seizure of Arab lands by Israel and the USA’, a comment that provoked comment. Apologies from...

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

66 – Towards the Unknown

Contents Articles Reviews Regulars and Occasionals Editorial Levinas is a revisionist within Judaism. Born in Lithuania, he inherited the Talmudic tradition of the anti-mystical Mitnagged movement that opposed the popular affective and immediate piety of...