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, Letters

60 – Sofia 60

Contents Articles Reviews Obituaries Regulars and Occasionals Editorial Justice Tarrot card XI — from www.mindbodysoul.com Religion & Social Justice It is a general observation that faith should direct how we live, with theology informing ethics...

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Bluffer’s Guide to Post-Colonial Theologies

A short guide to post-colonial theologies: Latin American liberation theology, Philippine Theology of Struggle, Korean Minjung, Indian Dalit and Taiwanese Homeland theology, each starting from the experience of oppression.

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

59 – Death & Dying

Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Regulars and Occasionals Editorial It survives, surely, because the progressive weakening of religious institutions and religious thought does not alter the fact that at the deepest level of religious needs and...

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

58 – The Limits of Doctrinal Diversity

Contents Articles Reviews Interviews Editorial Sof 58 2 The Limits of Doctrinal Diversity Patti Whaley explains the purpose of this special edition When Ray Billington introduced himself, at a recent Oxford lecture, as “the world’s...

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

57 – On Mysticism

Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Regulars and Occasionals Editorial Joanna Dales is a member of the Yorkshire Group of the Sea of Faith and works part-time in her retirement with the University Chaplains at the University...

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On Mysticism, Mundane and Sacred

Surveys the varieties of mystical experience across traditions and the difficulty of defining mysticism, then reflects on ordinary moments of serenity, joy and tears as possible echoes of mystical experience.

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

56 – Ecology and Theology

Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Regulars and Occasionals Editorial The Environment ~ and Development Once blasphemy against God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and therewith also those blasphemers. To blaspheme the earth is now...

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A Bluffer’s Guide to Ecology and Theology

Compares deep ecology, which seeks an immanent earth-centred spirituality, with ecofeminism, which criticises the transcendent God and dualisms, as two complementary theological critiques arising from the ecological movement.

Sofia Magazine Issue, Sofia, Letters

55 – Gods and the Good Life

Contents Articles Reviews Poetry Regulars and Occasionals Editorial Presidents pray: “God bless America!” But how do the people of the U.S. see this god and make their moral judgements? Popular culture celebrates the ‘good’ violence...