Philosophy's Own Religion

by Cupitt, Don

• ISBN13: 9780334028116
• ISBN10: 0334028116
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Scm Pr

Summary

With his usual provocative language, Cupitt offers his own systematic philosophy of religion. Basing his theory on his understanding of the earliest Christian societies, he first fashions a "democratic metaphysics" that combines nihilism and radical humanism. From this position, he develops a religion of life in which we learn to say "Yes" to transience, to practice expressive living, and to be humanitarians in social ethics.

Author Biography

Don Cupitt is a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part One: Fore Words	1	(50)
Dogmatic theology and the philosophy of religion	3	(12)
Globalization and religious thought	15	(18)
English as the first globalized language and culture	17	(2)
The end of the world religions	19	(6)
The end of the western canon	25	(8)
On systematic `closure'	33	(8)
Beginning all over	41	(6)
How it is with us	47	(4)
Part Two: We and Our World	51	(76)
The relation between language and reality	53	(11)
The way into philosophy	54	(7)
Language and reality	61	(3)
`Discursive idealism' and religious thought	64	(11)
The mobility of the religious object	72	(3)
The sign which denies that it is a sign	75	(9)
Being	84	(11)
The web of communication	95	(8)
We	103	(6)
I: the first person singular	109	(5)
Our world	114	(6)
Reality and the imagination	120	(7)
Laziness	123	(1)
Efficiency	123	(1)
Consensus	124	(1)
Exculpation	124	(1)
Power	124	(3)
Part Three: The Teaching	127	(41)
Dissemination	129	(8)
Easy, going	137	(7)
Expressionism	144	(6)
The union of life and death	150	(5)
Humanitarian ethics	155	(6)
My story, our story	161	(3)
Local colour	164	(4)
The religious object	166	(2)
Notes	168	(11)
Index	179