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Don Cupitt, Jacques Derrida and Prayer
This talk aims to explore why Derrida said he prayed daily – even “I pray all the time” – while Cupitt, for his part, said even though he still sometimes did pray he “shouldn’t do...
This talk aims to explore why Derrida said he prayed daily – even “I pray all the time” – while Cupitt, for his part, said even though he still sometimes did pray he “shouldn’t do...
Philip Knight argues that God is impossible but that the name of God is the name of the possibility of the impossible. If we understand what it means to describe God as transcendent we have...
On June 8th 2007 the Sea of Faith Movement lost an important philosophical ally with the death of the American neo-pragmatist, Richard Rorty. Here I want to express my own appreciation of his work through...
The historian’s job is an important one. It does matter whether people existed or not and what they were like and what they did. Yes, our gods, Greek, Roman JudaeoChristian-Muslim are fictions, myths that are...
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Janet is a member of the SoF North West Group Philip Knight writes a special review of The Predicament of Postmodern Theology: Radical Orthodoxy or Nihilist Textualism by Gavin Hyman Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press,...
Writing in SOF (No.42, September 2000), Dinah Livingstone diagnoses a “massive complacency” in Cupitt’s book which she sees as “ignoring the struggle for justice”. The type of struggle Dinah recalls for us is that of...
PARK: THE DEBATE In our summer issue, Duncan Park urged SoF to rethink its hostility to Evangelical Christianity and enjoy what he called “religion in the mode of passion: the evangelical experience”. The concept of...