Book: The Sea of Faith by Don Cupitt

Jesus said to them, "Who do you say that I am?" They replied "You are the eschatalogical manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma of which we find the ultimate meaning in our interpersonal relationships." And Jesus said "What?"

- Matthew 16 and Anon.

When discussing the views of Bishop John Spong, I once said that I hoped if I ever reached a position similar to his, I'd have the courage to stop calling myself a Christian. Well, whaddya know...

But I also said that it'd be nice to have the community you get from a church, without the obsession with blood, sin, sex and death. So Don Cupitt's book The Sea of Faith was of interest to me, because in it Cupitt advances what he calls a "non-realist" Christianity, while maintaining that this is not just humanist atheism by another name.

( Read more... )