Christianity s classic plan of salvation was a vast myth of cosmic
Creation, Fall and Redemption. Earth-centered and supernaturalist,
it was fatally damaged by Galileo and later astronomers, and by
historians of human origins. In A New Great Story, Don Cupitt
rewrites the old grand-narrative as the story of how religion
called us out of nature and gradually made us ourselves: social
beings in an ordered world, language-using and self-aware.
Religious ideas, whether they build civilization or inspire
criticism of it, are always leading ideas. They made us everything
that we are. Cupitt sees the history of religion as culminating in
the teaching of Jesus, who announced a new age in which human
beings are at last fully themselves, fully reconciled to each other
and to life. That message was long almost immediately, and the
cycle begun afresh ...
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