Don Cupitt Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 6 pages of analysis of Critically Evaluate Cupitt's Cultural-linguistic Approach to Religious Language.

Don Cupitt Essay | Essay

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Critically Evaluate Cupitt's Cultural-linguistic Approach to Religious Language

Summary: Discusses Don Cupitt, the non-realist, once an Anglican clergyman. Evaluates Cupitt's attempt to meet this task using the resources of the cultural-linguistic approach to religious language.
Religion without doctrine, religion without creed, religion without belief in another, spiritual world we live in - that is what Cupitt is striving for since he denies the literal truth of virtually all the elements of religious creed: the afterlife, heaven and hell and the resurrection of Jesus Christ." are comments made by Julian Baggini after an interview with Cupitt. Cupitt is seen as "a man who wants to dispense with all religion's claim to truth, yet who sees something in religion that is worth preserving as religion supplies us with poetry and myths to live by and we need stories to live by because our existence is temporal and we always need to construct some kind of story of our lives and that story needs to have a religious quality." (TPM Online). On the other hand, Cupitt sees "the world before us is all there is. There...

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