Books by Don Cupitt

Interprets Christian history, arguing that the meaning of the West is not Catholic Christian, but radical Christian. This book argues that the original Jesus was a secular figure, a utopian teacher of ethical wisdom. It asserts that the core of Western culture is simply the old Christian spirituality extraverted.

For two centuries and more our culture has been secular, and no religious doctrine plays a constitutive part in any established branch of knowledge. This title shows that a surprising amount of traditional Christian belief - including a Grand Narrative, and a non-metaphysical theology - is returning to us in secular form.

This text began in the 1860s as a phrase from Matthew Arnold's picture of the decline of religion as the retreat of the tide on Dover's beach. The book has had a significant impact, for its account of historical developments and its presentation of Christian non-realism.

Don Cupitt sets out his own systematic philosophy of life, reviving an old question: how far in the direction of religious belief, and eternal happiness, is it possible to go on the basis of reason alone? His 'expressionist' philosophy leads him to conclusions that are both very startling and more positive than his critics might expect.

A companion to The Religion of Being which deserves to become a classic of modern spirituality. The analysis of a violent religious experience becomes a postmodern vision of the world and a secular version of the doctrine of the Trinity.

Juxtaposes the traditional Apostles' Creed of Western Christianity and the creed of modern radical theology. This work provides a discussion of the chasm between Church and society with a positive approach to the post-ecclesiastical question.

The second of Don Cupitt's Everyday Speech books, which introduce a new empirical way of doing theology - by examining ordinary language for evidence of our current religious outlook . This book studies our use of the terms It and It All.

Don Cupitt's ethics may seem strange and furious; but he says that this is a religious ethic to fit the truth about the world and our own life as we now understand it.

Don Cupitt descrubes time-pessimism as the spiritual disorder of the age, and its cure as the prime task of postmodern religious thought. We must redeem and revalue time, transcience and this mortal life of ours. He believes that it can be done. It really can be done.

Don Cupitt is best known for the "non-realistic" doctrine of God, which he first put forward in 1980. This is a collection of his essays written over 20 years, that show him developing his distinctive theology before a variety of audiences.

Presents a Devil's Dictionary of the author's own ideas, with cross-links from entry to entry guiding the reader around his system. This title points out that the non-arrival of the Kingdom left the early Christians looking up vigilantly towards a better world that was yet to come.

If new Platos or Buddhas were to appear today, what would they say about the nature of reality, the human condition and the way to happiness?The period 800-200 b.c.e. the so-called Axial Age was the time when Old World pioneering philosophers and religious teachers laid down the basic ideas by which people have been living ever since. Today those great religious and cultural traditions are coming to an end. We are entering a new Axial Age.Don Cupitt observes that this second Axial Age is one of communication. Everything is accessible to everyone, and everyone can make a contribution. The world is therefore made and remade not by the individual genius, but by a change in the general consensus. Cupitt describes the emergent religion and philosophy of the new Axial Period in clear and accessible language. He predicts that, while it may seem very strange at first, we will learn to love it