In everyday speech we often hear people jokingly mention what they call the 'ultimate questions', the 'big questions', or 'the great questions' of life. In Don Cupitt's judgment, however, these questions are no joking matter. He believes that there is no higher truth than the truth that is built into our everyday speech and that, therefore, these questions should be taken seriously. In The Great Questions of Life, he collects and classifies all the great questions, in the wordings that are most familiar to us, and interprets and answers them. He shows how the decline of the old religion has led to the return of the great questions and explains why they have become important to us in modern times.
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Don Cupitt is a Life Fellow and former Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was born in 1934 at Oldham, England, and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences, Theology and the Philosophy of Religion. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1959. From 1962-1965, he was Vice-Principal of Westcott House, an Anglican theological college in Cambridge, and became Dean of Emmanuel College in 1966. From 1968 to 1996 he also lectured in the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity.
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- The Question of Being by Martin Heidegger on page 36, page 37, and Back Matter
- The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker's Trilogy) by Douglas Adams in Front Matter, and page 37
- The Uses of Literacy (U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives) by Richard Hoggart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Radical Theology by Don Cupitt in Back Matter
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