{"title":"The Sea of Faith\u0000 in Context","authors":"Mark D. Chapman","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.17","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article charts describes the social and theological background to Don Cupitt’s\u0000 The Sea of Faith\u0000 . After discussing the immediate context of the series in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, it goes on to compare Cupitt’s theology with that of the radical theologians of the 1960s, especially the South Bank School including John Robinson. Against the backdrop of different theories of secularisation, it sees the theologians of the 1960s as the last representatives of a ‘national’ Christianity. In distinction, Cupitt’s emphasis on the individual will in\u0000 The Sea of Faith\u0000 is seen as much more suited to the social context of his times.\u0000","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141706536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don Cupitt and the Realism/Non-Realism Debate","authors":"Jessica Eastwood","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.19","url":null,"abstract":"The structure of this paper is threefold. First, it will suggest that the religious realist and non-realist attitudes are representative of a spectrum of cognitive attitudes toward God rather than two polarising positions. Second, it will offer ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ forms of both attitudes, with ‘thickness’ representing the strength of metaphysical commitment. Finally, in answer to ‘what is at stake?’, the genuineness of religious non-realism and a ‘thin’ form of realism will be defended to a significant extent. Don Cupitt’s work will be commended for helping to open up the conversation and for introducing a range of authentic ways of talking and thinking about God.","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141710748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sea of Faith 40 Years On","authors":"Elaine Graham, Graeme Smith","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.16","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 On the fortieth anniversary of its first broadcast in 1984, this article will consider the main themes of the BBC TV series\u0000 The Sea of Faith\u0000 , written and presented by the Cambridge philosopher and theologian Don Cupitt. It will attempt to evaluate its significance, then and now. We argue that Cupitt’s ‘radical’ reputation for his advancement of a broadly ‘non-realist’ understanding of God may have overshadowed other equally significant features, not least his central argument that unless Christianity responded constructively to modern thought it would be doomed to irrelevance. The article will close with some reflections on what Cupitt’s manifesto for religion might mean for those who continue to identify with his critiques of traditional theology today.\u0000","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141692177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: The Sea of Faith","authors":"Elaine Graham, Graeme Smith","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141706057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Don Cupitt and the State of Radical Theology","authors":"Steven Shakespeare","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.18","url":null,"abstract":"Don Cupitt’s non-realist thought is an important part of the ongoing story of radical theology. This article surveys some of the most important recent figures and trends in that story to assess the current state of the field. It sets out ways in which Cupitt’s attack on dualistic and dogmatic thought is strongly echoed by thinkers such as John Caputo, Richard Kearney, Catherine Keller and Grace Jantzen, and how major materialist philosophers like Slavoj Žižek still show a fascination with the emancipatory potential of Christianity. The article argues that some of Cupitt’s positions need to be challenged in the light of the contemporary ecological and metaphysical concerns of radical theology today.","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141706383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Eternity: How Earlier Poets Can Open Our Eyes to Faith","authors":"Helen Wilcox","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how poets from the seventeenth century, including John Donne, George Herbert, Gertrude More and Henry Vaughan, can still speak to modern readers with immediacy and vision about matters of faith. In the first two sections, the poets are shown to give voice to such enduring human emotions in response to God as wonder and joy but also as sorrow and frustration, challenging us as readers to experience faith more richly and deeply. In the third section, the poets are shown to be concerned with the same fundamental questions as we are today. Their works remain powerful in their beauty, surprising in their discoveries and reassuring in their humanness before God.","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140357262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On ‘Making Nothing Happen’: The Apophatic Power of Poetry and the Poetic Power of Silence","authors":"Rachel Mann","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.10","url":null,"abstract":"This essay suggests that the apophatic mode of theology and spirituality is especially well illuminated when brought into conversation with poetry’s rhetorical power to make ‘no-thing’ happen. By attending to poetry’s theological horizons, especially by what Michael Symmons Roberts calls poetry’s ’semi-sacred role’ and its capacity to embody silence and space, I shall suggest that it is possible to come to a richer understanding of God’s transcendent elusiveness.","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140356798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Going Upstream: Poetic Attention and Religious Resonance","authors":"Mark Oakley","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.11","url":null,"abstract":"The poetry of Mary Oliver is used here as an example of how, for many people who have not encountered religious language or been part of a faith community, poems can have what might be termed a ‘religious resonance’. The poet’s art of attention is identified as a primary tool for replacing the traditional role that religion has played in human communities and consciousness – exploring the sense of life as a gift from a transcendent source, infusing intuitions of meaning into experience and confronting us with ethical demands.","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140356003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Faith into Poetry","authors":"Michael Symmons Roberts","doi":"10.3828/mb.2024.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.2024.13","url":null,"abstract":"A poet’s essay, reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of writing poetry in metaphysical territory (and the difficulty of finding terms to define this territory) at a time when much traditional religious language is no longer widely used or shared.","PeriodicalId":507750,"journal":{"name":"Modern Believing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140352606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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