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Impossible Loves

Impossible Loves

by Don Cupitt (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $21.31
Synopsis

Back when belief in predestination was powerful, there was only one way life could go. Today we have a stronger sense of contingency and find ourselves clinging to lost loves, missed opportunities, and other lives we might have lived. Don Cupitt meditates on the religious significance of all our many lost and impossible loves. The impossible, he says, has replaced the supernatural in our thinking.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 120
 Publisher: Polebridge Press
Published: 15 Oct 2007
ISBN 10: 1598150014
ISBN 13: 9781598150018

Media Reviews
How might one reinvent religious thinking when Western religions are dead or dying? In this contemporary ?Guide for the Perplexed, ? Don Cupitt leads his readers through a range of ?impossible loves?? unattainable desires (including God) whose very unattainability holds us in thrall. Drawing on a wide spectrum of post-modern thinkers including Rorty, Derrida and Vattimo, Cupitt presents the possibility of embracing and living out the radical contingency of human life. With a plain spoken brilliance rooted in a well furnished intellect, Don Cupitt provokes, cajoles, and entices us to recognize what we already know but mostly hide from ourselves.
Author Bio
DON CUPITT is a former Dean of Emmanuel College and Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at Cambridge University. In 1996 he retired early in order to write full-time, becoming a life fellow of his college.