In modern thinking people have increasingly come to see the world as primarily one of ordinary human life. Don Cupitt argues that we speak of life very much as people used to speak of God: faith in life, what life has in store for us, wrestling with life, etc. In "Life, Life" he has assembled some 250 of these life-idioms. Cupitt mines this database to develop a modern religious philosophy of human life. In it, ethics and stories take the place of traditional supernatural dogma. This fully life-centered religious outlook turns out to be a lively radical theology.
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Cupitt challenges us to rethink religion and morality in terms of ordinary, contingent, "outsideless" life. A must-read. -- Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University
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Don Cupitt is a Fellow and former Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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If you want to know what Don Cupitt has been thinking since "After God," his only American book to reach a wide audience, this is a good place to start. He prolificly publishes small tomes which consist of summaries of his recent writings and the next step in the furthering of his thought. It is almost as though the finished book shows him thinking on paper in front of the reader. He takes pains to disclose the book is a work in progress, just like the author. In Cupitt's case this works because the book does reflect the man - brimming with life, aware of all contraries and bursting out of outmoded forms in the search for new meanings of the word "religious."
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negative sacred, moral providence, human life world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition by Charles Darwin on page 100, page 104, and Back Matter
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on page 100, page 104, and Back Matter
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy on page 1, page 4, and Back Matter
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- Surfing on the Sea of Faith: The Ethics and Religion of Don Cupitt by Nigel Leaves in Front Matter, page 121, and Back Matter
- Odyssey on the Sea of Faith: The Life & Writings of Don Cupitt by Nigel Leaves in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Radical Theology by Don Cupitt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- New Directions In Philosophical Theology: Essays In Honour Of Don Cupitt by Don Cupitt in Front Matter, and page 59
- God in the Bath: Relaxing in the Everywhere Presence of God by Stephen Mitchell in Back Matter
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