Turns of Phrase

by Cupitt, Don

• ISBN13: 9780334044192
• ISBN10: 0334044197
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Scm Pr

Summary

In 40 years of writing Don Cupitt has coined many new words and phrases to communicate his ideas, but he has written so much that critics have split him up into stages, and readers complain of obscurity. Piqued, he here represents an entertaining 'Devil's Dictionary' of his own ideas, with cross-links from entry to entry guiding the reader around his system. Cupitt's teaching is a form of religious naturalism based, not like Spinoza's on geometrical reasoning, but upon the more biological idea of an uprush of energies pouring out into symbolic expression. He points out that the non-arrival of the Kingdom left the early Christians looking up vigilantly towards a better world that was yet to come. Today, people no longer expect any further world after this one, and Church-religion no longer works. It is too inhibited. Instead, we need to work out, and start living out, the philosophy and the ethic of the final world, now. It is a world in which the original spirituality of the 'inner life' is replaced by a new religion of 'self-outing' and putting on a 'good show' - the religion of 'solar' generosity that Cupitt attributes to the original Jesus.

Author Biography

Don Cupitt is a Life Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the author of many books including The Sea of Faith, Taking Leave of God, The Old Creed and the New, Jesus and Philosophy, The Meaning of the West, Solar Ethics and The Fountain.

Table of Contents

Introduction

'Above us only sky'

Actus Purus

Aestheticism

All out

'All this is all there is'

Analogy

The Answer

Anthropomonism, Hominism

Artist

Autological and Heterological thinking

The Autonomy of Religion

Being, Be-ing

'Life is Bitterbittersweet'

Buddhism

Solitary Buddhas

Charisma

Christian Buddhism

'Classical Christianity is now our Old Testament'

Coming out

Death, Life, Eternal life, Life after death, A living death, A dying life

The Death of God

Democratic Philosophy

Democratization in religion

'Earthshine', 'backlighting'

Easy, going

Ecstatic immanence

Emotivism

Emptiness

Energetic Spinozism

Eschatological urgency

Everyday Speech

Evil

Expression

Introvertive and Extravertive religion and mysticism

Fact and Interpretation

Featherlite

Feminism and bipolar thinking

Fictionalism

The Fire

The Fountain

The Fray

Ghostly titles

Globalization

Glory

God

God, a 'leading' idea

'God is a secular humanist'

The Highest Good, the Summum Bonum

Good show!

Grand Narrative, great Story

Heresy, heretic

Heterologous thinking

Heteronomy

Etty Hillesum

Humanism

The Human Lifeworld

Human realism

Humanitarian ethics

Identity

Impossible Loves

Inside out

Internalization

'The Interpretative Plasticity of the World'

The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith

Kingdom-religion, Kingdom theology

Landscape Art, Eastern and Western

Language is only about itself, Language is much cleverer than the people who speak it, Language speaks us, Let language do the talking

The Leap of Reason

Life, The Religion of Ordinary Life

Life's a Package Deal

We live along the wires, etc.

Lost in the objectivity of world-love

Lucifer

Make out, make, believe, make sense, making the most of It

Meaning, mean-ing

Mediated and immediate religion

Metaphysical evil

Misandry, misotheism

'Your mind is in front of your face'

Mind, 'minding'

Our M/Other

Mysticism: 'Mysticism is not a kind of experience

it is a kind of transgressive writing'

Nihilism

Non-realism

Our world and The world

Outsidelessness

'Be passers-by'

'Everything is a Period Piece'

Philosophy

'Poetical' theology and philosophy

Postmodernism

Primary and Secondary

Realism, Non-realism, Anti-realism

Does Religion need an Object?

Religious Experience

Ressentiment

Revelation

The Secularization Thesis

Solar ethics, solar living, solar loving, solar expressivism, solarity

A Spirituality is a religious life-style

Can you tell what it is?

A theatrical view of the self

Theology, 'Poetical theology'

Therapeutic Religion and Philosophy

The Torus

This is It, That's It, Was that It?, What's It all about?

It all, Are you up for It?

Totum simul

Transcendent and transcendental

Truth

The Valuation of Life

'We are in the Void, and we make the lot', 'the Discipline of the Void', 'Make a friend of the Void'

World

Saying Yes to life

Zoe

The Books

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