This was the book which first garnered international celebrity and notoriety for its author and which fire-started a debate about the supernatural claims of Christianity. Rejecting Christian doctrines and metaphysics in favour of the religious consciousness which characterises human identity, Cupitt 'takes leave' of God by abandoning objective theism. Because he remained an ordained priest of the Church of England, the author attracted considerable attention and criticism for his position. Indeed, Keith Ward, now Oxford's Regius Professor of Divinity, wrote an entire book - Holding Fast to God - which attempted to counter Cupitt's views. Whatever one thinks of the author's beliefs, Taking Leave of God contributed to one of the most important theological discussions of its time.

Product Description: This, Don Cupitt argues, is a new kind of theological book. It starts not from doctrine or scripture but from the rise of those sciences that bear most directly on the questions of human nature and the human condition. The idea is to find out what religious possibilities there may be in the emergent modern vision of our situation...read more

Product Description: 'If you are one of those who persist in thinking that the old questions about the meaning of life, however badly framed they were, had something important behind them, then the answer offered here is that there is indeed such a thing as the religious life, that it has a variety of different possible shapes or courses, and that there is something important to be learnt from a consideration of the map of life as a whole...read more

Product Description: Long-Legged Fly, The: A Theology of Language and Desire by Cupitt, Don. 8vo. 1st ptg.

Product Description: Don Cupitt reinterprets the traditional doctrine that the world has been created out of nothing by the divine Word. He shows how recent developments in thought have led to the rediscovery both of nihilism and of the creative power of language...read more

Product Description: Western thought began with an attack on religious myth by philosophers who held that the highest truth must be non-narrative and timeless. They left a paradox to haunt us: for on the one hand everyone knows that stories are important to us and our religion is full of them, while on the other hand stories continue to have a bad name as myths or fictions...read more

Product Description: Don Cupitt argues that our age has recently become post-Christian and post-philosophical. Uncertain what to make of the new situation, people are becoming highly disorientated. Will either philosophy or theology ever be able to focus our cultulre around a coherent, rational and commonly-acknowledged view of life? By way of an answer, Don Cupitt offers a reinvention of metaphysics...read more

The author of The Sea of Faith traces the evolution of religious belief, redefines contemporary beliefs, and challenges readers to embrace religion as a set of tools that will enhance their lives.

Product Description: When Don Cupitt was struck by a very brief yet violent religious experience he wrote a note about it on the spot. Now in retrospective analysis of that moment he develops a postmodern vision of the world and the human condition.

Product Description: Don Cupit examines all the idioms now current in everyday speech to demonstrate a post-modern religious philosophy of life.

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Product Description: Like hell, heaven is now to be found on Earth, where humans are striving towards globalization, supercommunication and a more humanitarian way of dealing with things. The author argues that this reflects the tenets of kingdom theology. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Jesus and the Gospel of God, Don Cupitt takes a second look at the doctrine of the incarnation, going back to Scripture itself and especially to the person of Jesus as we see him in the synoptic gospels. His declared aim is to restore the real Jesus to his proper centrality in the Christian faith, and to focus attention on the man and his message rather than on doctrines about him...read more

Product Description: In this book Don Cupitt presents his systematic philosophy of religion, describing his own position as combining nihilism with radical humanism , and as 'a language-mediated radical religious humanism'. From this he derives philosophy's own relgion. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Christian churches are seemingly in terminal decline. Is a reformation and renewal of Christianity still possible, even at this late hour?Don Cupitt argues that it is possible, but will be difficult. Church Christianity as we have received it is handicapped by two great errorsa mistaken interpretation of Jesus as having been the co-equally divine Son of God incarnate and the mistaken belief that there is a controlling supernatural world beyond this world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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