DON CUPITT, AFTER GOD: THE FUTURE OF RELIGION

Don Cupitt. AFTER GOD: THE FUTURE OF RELIGION. New York. BasicBooks, A Division of HarperCollins, 1997.

BIOGRAPHIC AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC
Don Cupitt was a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, when the book appeared. Among his twenty or so books is The Sea of Faith. It was produced as a BBC-TV series at an unstated date. (From the book dust jacket.)

The book is in "the MasterMinds series." This presents "concise and accessible books" on "cutting-edge ideas" by "leading thinkers" in a "highly readable format." Each title is a "crystallization of a lifetime's work and thought." Other books in the series include Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Computing by David Gelernter. (From the introductory pages.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction, vii

PART I: THE COMING OF THE GODS

1. Souls, Spirits, and Gods, 3
2. Why Spirits? 9
3. The First Gods, 19
4. The Coming of God, 27
5. Where Are the Gods? 41

PART II: THE DEPARTURE OF THE GODS

7. Mysticism, 51
8. The End of Dogmatic Metaphysics, 57
9. History and Humanism, 63
10. Culture and Language, 68
11. The Time of the Angels, 74

PART III: RELIGION AFTER THE GODS

12. The Legacy of the Old Religions, 79
13. Naturalism, Philosophy, and Religion, 91
14. Globalization and the End of the Other, 95
15. The End of Morality and the Return of Ethics, 101
16. Innocent Religion? 106
17. The Poetical Theology, 110
18. World Religion, 121

Bibliography, 129

Index, 135

SELECTED SUMMARY NOTES ON THE TEXT, QUOTABLE QUOTES, SIGNIFICANCE, EVALUATION, AND RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER WORK
This book is the subject of an essay in the PROGRAMME, Religious Life After God's Death.

21 March 1999

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