Take a Quick Trip on The Sea of Faith in Aotearoa
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What's In a Name?
The Big Questions
- We have to create meaning for ourselves
- Or search for it?
- Thinking of sending a wreath to God's Funeral? You might like to read this first.
- Don Cupitt suggests here that "Life" is replacing "God" and here that there is no supernatural glue that hold things together.
- Might it be possible to better understand were war fits in?
- "Evil" — is it real? imaginary? read what earlier Christian theologians thought about it.
Expressions of Faith
- Fundamentalism often expresses itself violently, but it springs from deep fear. Karen Armstrong talks about it in her book The Battle for God: read a review here.
- Lloyd Geering did a lecture series on the danger that fundamentalism poses to the secular world.
- There's heaps of ways of expressing religious faith.
The Practice of Faith
- Similarly, doubt can help us to grow.
- "All that is ever accessible to us is the relative god, my god. As I see this, metaphysics dies and I am left knowing only my god, my guiding religious ideal. And this is the non-realist philosophy of religion in a nutshell" wrote Don Cupitt in Is Nothing Sacred?
The Earth
- The Earth: a Sacred Place to Dwell
- The land in New Zealand has been fought over ever since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. The Waitangi Tribunal, which makes reparation recommendations wrote in a Report that "the war has never ended in [the province of ] Taranaki."
- Just another book about the millennium? No, its Lloyd Geering's The World To Come
- He followed up that in 2005 with a book about "The Ecological Imperative". Its called The Greening of Christianity.
- But enviromentalism can be a path of faith.
Christianity: for, against and post-
Other Paths of Faith
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The Sea of Faith in Australia
(SoFIA) has a similar document
here.