Sea of Faith Christchurch Group

Our next meeting is Friday 27 March. Ian Crumpton will present ideas from Jeffrey Sach’s book with the above title. Of interest to anyone who wants a perspective on what is going on in the economy these days (and who isn’t?).

At St Ninian’s Church, on 4 pm Sunday 22 March, the second of a new kind of event will be held. Ian Crumpton attended the first, and wrote the following report. Continue Reading »

At our next meeting, we will continue looking at Don Cupitt’s Sea of Faith programmes. This time, the focus is on sacred scriptures. First, Luther drove a wedge between scripture and tradition, and then modern biblical scholarship treated sacred scripture as literature to be investigated using methods that can be applied to any literature.

In particular, Don Cupitt looks at the life of Albert Schweitzer, most known as a missionary doctor in Africa, but also a biblical scholar who wrote a devastating critique of other scholars’ attempts to write a life of Jesus, and an expert on J S Bach.

Following on from last meeting, in which we saw and heard Don Cupitt explain the medieval view of the universe, how it collapsed and was replaced by a mechanical view, and how Descartes and Pascal had quite different responses to that new view, we will look at the revolution that Darwin, Freud, and Jung have brought about in our understanding of what it is to be a human being

Our first meeting for 2009 will be Friday 13 February. We will be able to see an extract from Don Cupitt’s 1984 very popular BBC TV Series “The Sea of Faith,” which resulted in people forming the Sea of Faith Network, so that they could talk about the ideas that he presented. This is happening as a result of Hugh’s suggestion and it will be a reminder of where we have come from and why the Sea of Faith was created. I’ve also found it very interesting seeing the programmes again, and comparing what I see now with what I remember of them.