After God: The Future of Religion

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How can religion survive if, as the renowned scholar Don Cupitt claims, God is dead? In "After God" he takes us through the evolution of religious belief from the dawn of the gods to their twilight. Drawing on examples ranging from Plato to Donald Duck, he eloquently steers us back to an understanding of the supernatural world that every child instinctively has.

"Perhaps, " writes Cupitt, "God had to die in order to purify our love for him." But how can we still love God after the death of God? Tracing the move from traditional belief to cynicism to faith after God, Cupitt says we need to build a new religious vocabulary. He challenges us to see religion less as an ideology and more as a tool kit, a set of techniques, perhaps, an art form enhancing our lives the way that literature and art do."A brilliant, incisive analysis of the origin and demise of theistic religions in general and christianity in particular. Cupitt challenges people of faith to engage him in the arenas of reality rather than hiding in those ritualistic actos of pretneding which the church has so frequently been content to occupy."--The Rt. Rev. John Shelby Spong, author of Liberating the Gospels