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Don Cupitt, pejoratively called “the atheist priest”, is a radical Anglican theologian who developed and pushed Bishop John Robinson’s heretical thought into new directions which take secularism, atheism, and post-theistic thought into Christian religious practice. In this chapter, Cupitt’s life and work are introduced.
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Much of this biographical information is derived from an interview with Don Cupitt on February 16, 2009, conducted by the anthropologist Alan McFarlane as part of his series of “Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers”, University of Cambridge, online. http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1115618.
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Catherine Pickstock, “Theology and Post-modernity,” in New Directions in Philosophical Theology, ed. Gavin Hyman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 67.
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Fergus Fergus, “Re-Reading Aquinas in Derrida’s Wake,” in New Directions in Philosophical Theology, ed. Gavin Hyman (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004), 98.
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Pickstock , 68.
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It should be noted, however, that, in 1994, one of Cupitt’s theological disciples, Anthony Freeman, who was a priest in a parish rather than in an academic post, was deprived of his position by his bishop after Freeman’s publication of a work of popular radical theology, God In Us: A Case for Christian Humanism (London: SCM Press, 1993).
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See The Sea of Faith website, online (accessed August 22, 2016). http://www.sofn.org.uk.
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Brian Hebblethwaite, The Ocean of Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), ix.
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Keith Ward, Holding Fast to God (London: SPCK, 1997); Brian Hebbelethwaite, The Ocean of Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1988).
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Colin Crowder, ed., God and Reality (Woonsocket, RI: Mowbray, 1997); Gavin Hyman, The Predicament of Postmodern Theology (London: Westminster John Knox, 2001).
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———. 1980. Taking Leave of God. London: SCM.
———. 1985a. Only Human. London: SCM.
———. 1985b [1976]. The Leap of Reason. London: SCM.
———. 1985c [1971]. Christ and the Hiddenness of God. London: SCM.
———. 1990. Creation Out of Nothing. London: SCM.
———. 1994. After All. London: SCM.
———. 1995a. The Last Philosophy. London: SCM.
———. 1995b. Solar Ethics. London: SCM.
———. 1998. Post-Christianity. In Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity, ed. Paul Heelas, 218–232. Oxford: Blackwell.
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Hyman, G. (2018). Don Cupitt. In: Rodkey, C., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_9
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