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Books

Living and Partly Living

John Mann reviews The Last Philosophy by Don Cupitt, What is Philosophy? by Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, and The Bridge to Nothingness by Shlomo Giora Shoham.

Don Cupitt came into the public view in the mid- 1980s with his BBC TV series The Sea of Faith which also produced a radical religious network of the same name. Yet Cupitt’s new thinking began in the early 1980s with his books Taking Leave of God and The World to Come. In these books Cupitt, an Anglican priest and theologian, proposed a new understanding of Christianity. God, he said, does not exist ‘out there’ but is a part of our human reality, a personified ideal of religious values. Therefore we need a new type of Christianity – a Christian Buddhism – in order to explore this new understanding of God.

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