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This first extended study of Don Cupitt's writings discusses them from his earliest articles up to and including The Long-Legged Fly, published in 1987. Such a survey is badly needed, the author argues, because so many of the attacks on Don Cupitt are misplaced and fail to see his ongoing project as a whole. Scott Cowdell divides Cupitt into 'the early Cupitt', up to Taking Leave of God; 'the later Cupitt', the writer of the trilogy consisting of Taking Leave of God, The World to Come and Only Human and of The Sea of Faith; and the most recent non-realist Cupitt of The Long-Legged Fly. While sympathetic to Don Cupitt's works Scott Cowdell is by no means uncritical, and makes some important objections, particularly to Cupitt's rejection of alternative approaches: 'there are more thing in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in his philosophy'. But at least, he argues, Don Cupitt is honest in his assertions; there are other theologians in effect just as radical who conceal their radical character in an obscurantist haze. Don Cupitt has written a Foreword, and there is a full bibliography of his writings.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Atheist Priest?
• Subtitle: Don Cupitt and Christianity
• Author: Scott Cowdell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124
• EAN: 9780334000037
• ISBN: 0334000033
• ID: 04601379
• Publisher: SCM PRESS
• Weight: 167 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2012

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