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Don Cupitt Life Fellow and former Dean of Emmanuel College Cambridge, England

Don Cupitt is a Life Fellow and former Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was born in 1934 at Oldham, England, and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he studied Natural Sciences, Theology and the Philosophy of Religion. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1959. From 1962-1965, he was Vice-Principal of Westcott House, an Anglican theological college in Cambridge, and became Dean of Emmanuel College in 1966. From 1968 to 1996 he also lectured in the Cambridge Faculty of Divinity.

Don Cupitt is best known as a teacher and writer. He is often described as a "radical theologian," or as "a liberal religious thinker." Philosophically, he is a stalwart non-realist. Most of his books belong to a single series of twenty-three titles that reflect the development of his thinking, from Taking Leave of God (1980) to Emptiness and Brightness (2002). A frequent broadcaster, mainly for the BBC, he has made three TV Series, one of which, "The Sea of Faith," (1984), also gave rise to a book and to an international network of radical Christians which is still growing. In recent years, he has been attracted to Westar by its conferences and by Polebridge Press, which has begun publishing his new books.
 

Books by Don Cupitt

• Way to Happiness, 2005
• Life, Life, 2003
• Is Nothing Sacred? The Non-Realist Philosophy of Religion: Selected Essays, 2002
• Emptiness and Brightness, 2001
• Reforming Christianity, 2001
• Christ and the Hiddenness of God, 1971, second edition 1985, U.S. edition 1971
• Crisis of Moral Authority, 1972, second edition 1985, U.S. edition 1972, Dutch translation 1973
• The Leap of Reason, 1976, second edition, 1985, U.S. edition, 1976
• The Worlds of Science and Religion, 1976
• Who Was Jesus? (with Peter Armstrong), 1977
• Explorations in Theology, 1979
• The Nature of Man, 1979
• The Debate about Christ, 1979
• Jesus and the Gospel of God, 1979
• Taking Leave of God, 1980, U.S. edition 1980, "Xpress" reprint 1993, "Classics" reprint 2001
• The World to Come, 1982
• The Sea of Faith,1984, paperback edition 1985, U.S. edition 1988, second edition, revised, 1994
• Only Human, 1985
• Life Lines, 1986
• The Long Legged Fly, 1987, "Xpress" reprint 1995
• The New Christian Ethics, 1988, "Xpress" reprint 1993
• Radicals and the Future of the Church, 1989, "Xpress" reprint 1996     
• Creation out of Nothing, 1990 with simultaneous U.S. edition
• What is a Story? 1991, "Xpress" reprint 1995
• The Time Being, 1992
• Rethinking Religion, Wellington, NZ 1992 (booklet only)
• After All, 1994
• The Last Philosophy, 1995, Japanese tr. 2000
• Solar Ethics, 1995
• After God, 1997, U.S. ed., April; UK ed. Sept); paperback 1998; Korean, Portuguese 1999, Danish 2000; German 2001, Chinese 2002.
• Mysticism After Modernity, 1997
• The Religion of Being, 1998
• The Revelation of Being, 1998
• The New Religion in Everyday Speech, 1999
• The Meaning of It All in Everyday Speech, 1999
• Kingdom Come in Everyday Speech, 2000
• Philosophy's Own Religion, 2000