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The Old Creed and the New (Paperback)
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The Old Creed and the New (Paperback)
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The Old Creed and the New is Don Cupitt's latest writing in his
on-going project to modernize religious thought. His previous works
have argued that since the Enlightenment almost every new movement
in Christianity has been neo-Conservative and authoritarian. Here
he looks to the liberal theologians of a hundred years ago who
attempted to modernize religion but were often content merely to
simplify and liberalize the creed. Today's radical theology, he
argues, contrasts by beginning to produce something so different
from traditional religion that the public may at first feel baffled
by it. Don Cupitt here sharply juxtaposes the traditional Apostles'
creed of western Christianity and the emergent creed of modern
radical theology. Side by side, they look amazingly different, and
Cupitt carefully explains what is happening, and why. The main
change, he argues, is that the old creed situated the believer
within a huge narrative cosmology, the central myth of a great
religion-based civilization, whereas the new creed merely defines
the bare outlines of a modern spirituality. The new religion
emerges as being scarcely creedal at all: it is the practice of
'solar living'. People no longer 'look up': instead, they are
content simply to claim their own lives, to find their own way of
living them, and to live life to its fullest. Just ordinary life
itself is now the religious object - which shows the
'post-protestant' character of the new outlook. The Old Creed and
the New tries to define and situate this new kind of religion, and
encourages the reader to think about it both intellectually and
spiritually.
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