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Theology Articles

An anthology of SoF-style theology on a variety of topics, by a variety of writers, in no particulare order!

by Don Cupitt

• After Religion – What? by Don Cupitt
• An Apologia for my Thinking by Don Cupitt
• Religion after the West by Don Cupitt
• John Robinson and the Language of Faith in God by Don Cupitt
• The Simpsons in search of Jesus by Don Cupitt

by Anthony Freeman

• Theology and the Church by Anthony Freeman
• The Living Jesus - Rethinking The Resurrection - A talk by Anthony Freeman at West Worthing Baptist Church
• Open up to God - Anthony Freeman suggests that just as consciousness is an ‘emergent property’ of the brain, so ‘God’ is an emergent property of human consciousness
• Sister Churches and Sisters in the Church by Anthony Freeman
• What is Mystical Experience?. Anthony Freeman reviews recent theories about mystical experience

by Trevor Greenfield

• New Life for Old Words by Trevor Greenfield, associate lecturer and postgraduate researcher at University College Chichester
• A Brief History of Radical Theology by Trevor Greenfield
• Is God Back on the Agenda? Trevor Greenfield

The Andrew Furlong Case

In 2002 Andrew Furlong, the then Dean of Clonmacnoise, was called to appear before a Church of Ireland court to answer a charge of heresy. He never appeared as he resigned before the date of the court appearance. The following articles provide details of the case and Mr Furlong's response.

• Integrity on Trial by Andrew Furlong
• Tried for Heresy: A 21st Century Journey of Faith. A rewiew of Andrew Furlong's account of the case.
• In Feb 2004 Mr Furlong published his thoughts on his story in the Guardian's 'Face to Faith' column in an article entitled Pilgrim's Progress
• Dean and the Incarnation - Letter to the Irish Times, 9th January 2002 from Professor Andrew Mayes in support of Andrew Furlong.

Miscellaneous

• Atheism at half-cock by David Boulton
• Is SOF a Cheshire Cat? by David Beverly
• Crisis and Quest: Rethinking God for the 21st Century by Malachi O’Doherty
• Easter, the Feast of Liberation by Giles Hibbert
• Feminism and love of the "unreal" God by Esther D. Reed, Lecturer in Theology at the University of Exeter
• Re-Review (and Review): The Sea of Faith by Don Cupitt by Jeff Astley, Director of the North of England Institute for Christian Education
• The language of God as love, not monster by Retired solicitor and "Unitarian Universalist" David Dulley
• The quest for the historical...who? - Editorial, from the SoF March 2000 issue
• Thou Shalt Not Forget - Summary of a debate in the 'Independent' appeared in 'Portholes', the newsletter of the SoF UK Steering Committee
• Men, not things: human rights and the idea of the person by Patti Whaley
• Reality and meaning in music by Patti Whaley
• From Natural Theology to a Theology of Nature by Dominic Kirkham
• A Republic of Children by David Boulton, Humanist, Quaker and former head of current affairs, arts and religion at Granada Television
• As we were saying... Excerpts from the first ten years of SoF Magazine (Spring 1990 to Summer 1992), edited by Clive Richards
• God - To Be Or Not To Be? by Mark Oakley, Chaplain of St Alban's Anglican Church, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Voyages on the Sea of Faith by Frank Walker
• Was Jesus a Christian?—I doubt it by Rowland Croucher, Director of John Mark Ministries, Melbourne
• Theological non-realism: Feminist's dream or nightmare? by Alison Webster
• Jesus for Christmas 2000 by Dr James Veitch

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