Monday 21st June
7.30 pm at
Hugh & Rosemary's home
Hugh & Rosemary's home
Those of us who went to hear Don Cupitt in Oxford in January will remember that he read us a passage from his latest book, this was published at the end of May. His talk was recorded so we hope to be able to play a short excerpt before we discuss the central theme of the book. This is how his publisher describes it:
"For two centuries and more our culture has been secular, and no religious doctrine now plays a constitutive part in any established branch of knowledge. Yet if God is dead, he won't lie down, and reminders of the old faith still pervade our language, the built environment, our art and our literature. Most important, themes of the old theology are currently returning to us in new and strange guises. Thus God, the strict Judge who searches our hearts and demands inner integrity, returns in the critical thinking which makes everyone trained it his own hardest taskmaster . Again, the biblical idea that the world is made by the utterance of language returns in modern poetry and linguistic philosophy. By assembling such reminders, Don Cupitt shows that a surprising amount of traditional Christian belief, including a new Grand Narrative and a non-metaphysical theology, is currently returning to us in secular form."
"For two centuries and more our culture has been secular, and no religious doctrine now plays a constitutive part in any established branch of knowledge. Yet if God is dead, he won't lie down, and reminders of the old faith still pervade our language, the built environment, our art and our literature. Most important, themes of the old theology are currently returning to us in new and strange guises. Thus God, the strict Judge who searches our hearts and demands inner integrity, returns in the critical thinking which makes everyone trained it his own hardest taskmaster . Again, the biblical idea that the world is made by the utterance of language returns in modern poetry and linguistic philosophy. By assembling such reminders, Don Cupitt shows that a surprising amount of traditional Christian belief, including a new Grand Narrative and a non-metaphysical theology, is currently returning to us in secular form." 
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