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The Religion of Being Paperback – 1 Apr 1998

by Don Cupitt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: SCM Press (1 April 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0334027314
  • ISBN-13: 978-0334027317
  • Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Revd Don Cupitt is a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His books include Taking Leave of God, The Sea of Faith and Solar Ethics were published by SCM Press and translated into many languages. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 starsMeditating on the sacrament of indecision
By J. Mann VINE VOICE on 7 May 2011
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In this book Cupitt engages with the philosopher Martin Heidegger and reflects on what it means for something to 'Be' - what is Being?

Some philosophers in the twentieth century appeared to take Heidegger's concept of 'Being' and make this into a synonym for 'God'.

Cupitt thinks this is a major mistake - Being is totally unlike God. While God is eternal, unchanging, all powerful and good, Being is quite the opposite. Being is essentially characterised as becoming, as change, weakness, emptiness, inconsistency, lack.

What 'is' is governed by time, it is always passing away, subject to change and decay, flux, contingency - Cupitt invokes the image of the fountain - eternally flowing, pouring itself out, streaming. Such an image is full of religious power - we can meditate on that streaming-forth, and we will find that it actually appeals more that the old God, violent, powerful, angry - Being is altogether more peaceful, milder, easy going.

Cupitt introduces two further concepts: Man, by which he means the world of humanity - our human world, and language. The world of 'Man' is where we experience Being - nothing is hidden, there is no secret or mystery, everything is out in the open with being.

Cupitt talks of different forms of meditation that relate to this view:

Moving-edge meditation, watching time pass, attending to the 'now', quietly watching some irregular motion.

Watching language form and flow in your mind - language just naturally pours forth - this is the meaning of the creation story - words came forth and as we spoke the 'thing' came to be, before language there are no 'things', once we name something it ex-ists (stands out).Read more ›
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HASH(0x893ebe4c) out of 5 stars Being? Who can say? 18 July 2004
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Don Cupitt is a Senior Fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge. In this excellent book, he grapples with the relationship between language and non-language, and along the way, he somehow manages to get to a spiritual approach to human existence. Cupitt proposes that we have "created vast protective ideologies of denial, as if we have found the obvious truth of our own situation quite unbearable, and have been willing to buy absolutely anything that promises to deliver us from it." This understanding has caused me to re-think my own situation and how I am protective of "my world view" and how I fit into the scheme of things. By understanding that the language model to which I pay attention shapes that world view, it becomes obvious that "being" cannot be until I shed, or at least live in an experience as much outside that model as possible.
Of course, all this reminded me of my Taoist studies and how that Tao which can be named is not the real Tao. And that we create opposites and limit the experience when we name things. There can be no "good" without "evil," etc. These concepts are very difficult to understand, and certainly they are not easily explained in the very language which we are want to leave behind! Perhaps the dilemma set up in the very last of the book is best to explain the difficulty in getting this all in orderly thought: "To the philosophy of the future, and to the religion of the future we offer the formula: non-language is Being. And Being - what's that? Answer: Nobody can say, but this book was meant to be a sort of poem in praise of it." To which I say, great poetry, indeed.
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