Rob Wheeler reviews Don Cupitt’s The Meaning of the West, doubting Cupitt’s claim to be a nihilist and his view that critical thinking began in Christian spirituality rather than with the Greeks.
Rob Wheeler reviews Barbara Smoker’s short textbook Humanism, written for GCSE religious education, praising its coverage but criticising its ‘goodies and baddies’ history of humanism.
Rob Wheeler reviews Julian Baggini’s What’s it all about?, which deflates ‘the meaning of life’ into smaller questions about meaning in life, examining origins, mortality and six commonly proposed sources of purpose.
Extracts from William Blake’s prophetic writings, compiled by Rob Wheeler for the closing session of the 2005 SoF conference. They argue that all deities reside in the human breast, that body and soul are one,...
Rob Wheeler reviews Richard Norman’s On Humanism, praising its refusal to define humanism against religion, its honest response to twentieth-century atrocities, and its argument that narrative art gives meaning without a transcendent structure.
