Sunday, January 16, 2011

Don Cupitt: On Religion, Language, Belief


Why are traditional forms of religious language often no longer expedient and often no longer communicative, transformative, or liberative? What would a contemporary vocabulary for the impulse to fulfillment/transcendence/self-mastery, etc., universal responsibility, global ethics, and sustainability look like? These are the questions that come to mind in relation to some of Cupitt's ideas.