How do people view the relationship between divinity and humanity? That is the question posed at the heart of this rigorous and academic work. Our search today is for a way of talking convincingly about this relationship, if it exists or is even meaningfully possible! In his latest book, Don Cupitt writes about how talk about that relationship is evolving. He points out "... 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." How will this play out? This writing will undoubtedly generate controversy and discussion as his previous books have done. 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. Most important, persuades Cupitt, 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 in 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. Best said by Cupitt himself, "Yet if God is dead, he won't lie down, and a reminder that the old faith still pervades our language, the built environment, our art and our literature." This is a stretching and stimulating work and yet it lacks soul.

How do people view the relationship between divinity and humanity? That is the question posed at the heart of this rigorous and academic work. Our search today is for a way of talking convincingly about this relationship, if it exists or is even meaningfully possible! In his latest book, Don Cupitt writes about how talk about that relationship is evolving. He points out "... 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." How will this play out? This writing will undoubtedly generate controversy and discussion as his previous books have done. 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. Most important, persuades Cupitt, 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 in 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. Best said by Cupitt himself, "Yet if God is dead, he won't lie down, and a reminder that the old faith still pervades our language, the built environment, our art and our literature." This is a stretching and stimulating work and yet it lacks soul.

How do people view the relationship between divinity and humanity? That is the question posed at the heart of this rigorous and academic work. Our search today is for a way of talking convincingly about this relationship, if it exists or is even meaningfully possible! In his latest book, Don Cupitt writes about how talk about that relationship is evolving. He points out "... 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." How will this play out? This writing will undoubtedly generate controversy and discussion as his previous books have done. 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. Most important, persuades Cupitt, 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 in 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. Best said by Cupitt himself, "Yet if God is dead, he won't lie down, and a reminder that the old faith still pervades our language, the built environment, our art and our literature." This is a stretching and stimulating work and yet it lacks soul.