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George Pattison (Foreword), Don Cupitt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: SCM Press; 3rd Revised edition edition (30 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0334029279
  • ISBN-13: 978-0334029274
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Sea of Faith made a huge impact when it was first published to accompany a major television series in the mid 1980's. For a generation that was embodying the ebbing of the tide of faith, it articulated the huge intellectual and cultural shifts that had resulted in most people no longer having any connection with official religion. For many who, whilst still going to church, glimpsed horizons wider than those offered by traditional forms of religious thought, The Sea of Faith offered liberating freedom, encouraging them to have minds of their own in matters of faith. For many more who had abandoned the church, it once again made the wider question a matter of serious and worthwhile concern. Today, the Sea of Faith networks exist in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and the movement is known around much of the world. The Sea of Faith is rightly acknowledged as one of the most influential theological texts of recent years. With a preface by George Pattison

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Don Cupitt shows how the rise in our science-based, democractic industrial society, of historical criticism and of knowledge of other religions has over the centuries slowly eroded the traditional framework of doctrinal belief--leaving us, as it seems to many, free, alone, and disoriented. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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65 of 67 people found the following review helpful
The new christianity 23 Dec 2000
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C S Lewis, among others, pointed to the gulf which separates the God who is master of the universe from the personal God we need to pray to. We cannot call on the first or find intellectual room for the second. Cupitt's treatment of the problem, its roots and its resolution, is not only thorough and systematic but leads to the optimistic conclusion which modern mysticism had already embraced - that we need God but not as traditionally conceived. He traces the encroachment of secularity into the religious sphere over the last 500 years (as the churches lost control of the activities of daily life) and the steady loss of belief in traditional religion over the last 150 years (since Darwin and biblical criticism struck at the cosmological basis of Judeo-Christianity. Yet he sees a persistent need of God in the Western world and a changing conception of what the word means.

Kant's recognition that knowledge can only be about the human mind, that it is essentially not about things out there, that it is subjective and never objective, has led others to see that the idea of God must also be anthropocentric. If all we know is what is in the mind then that is where God is. This was clear to the highly religious Pascal as much as to the irreligious Marx. Kierkegaard saw it in his life of withdrawal, Schweitzer in his life of ethical commitment. Wittgenstein saw that what we mean by God is determined by the limits not only of the mind but also of language.

Cupitt concludes that we need to see God as the focus of our lives, our values, our hopes, but we do not need an objective 'out there' God. It may be painful to walk away from the divine Father Christmas but we will be greatly enriched if we do. We can similarly accept Christ as a personification of human striving for selfhood while rejecting the mythology surrounding the name of Jesus.

On a strictly personal note I have been tremendously helped by this book. I found it full of gems. My doubts have been calmed, my seeking has found a direction, and my vague thoughts have been given substance.

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
fascinating 2 April 2000
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I must admit to having a more than vested interest in Mr Cupitt, he was a lecturer in the philosophy of religion at the university in which i now study theology. (Cambridge) His work is to my mind of the most fundamental importance to anyone who is not prepared to dismiss religion as "the opium of the people" but finds its claims to supernatural truth unteneble in the scientific age in which we live. He offers the reader a reason to let go of the traditional dogma of the church, not just because it seems unbelievable these days, but it is he says the prerequisite to finding a true spirituality, and a genuine religious experience in which the individual can be an autonomous moral and personal agent. For many people his approach is far too radical to be taken seriously, (some even find it offensive.) But he allows for this in his book, he says that to understand him one has to make fundamental changes to their outlook on the world and that most people will not be able to do this. I am not a religious person, and this maybe why i had less problems with him than many of the people i study with. But whether you agree with all he says or not, one cant miss the passion with which he writes, nor misunderstand depth of his own spirituality. This book fundamentally altered my view on the world, and my approach to the subject both academically and emotionally has been changed through reading it. He is the one author i recommend to any one who tells me that religion or more specifically christianity is outdated or naive. Read this book, even if you disagree with everything he says, it will give you a much greater idea of why you believe what you do.
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The new religion 29 July 2000
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Don Cupitt has for years been teaching philosophy of religion in Cambridge, England. I find him to be one of the most interesting and radical thinkers in England today.

In his book, Cupitt suggests a new spirituality. The old belief in the metaphysical God, Cupitt finds unintelligible. Cupitt is much inspired by thinkers like Wittgenstein, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and he advocates a human-centred spirituality without belief in the God of Christian theism. God is for Cupitt the sum of our values and ethical standards. "The true God is not God as a picturesque supernatual fact, but God as our religious ideal", he writes. Cupitt's God is not external, but something you can create through your thoughts and form of life.

Cupitt may be critized like the rest of the postmodern movement. When he writes "reality does not determine language: language determines reality", he is far too radical, and I don't think for instance Wittgenstein would agree with this.

But Cupitt is very interesting. One may get the feeling that he has an agenda, and is thinking with his soul, not merely playing an intellectual game. He challenges you. Cupitt is an excellent writer who should be read and discussed!

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