Don Cupitt Timeline
22nd May 1934
Born in Oldham to Robert and Norah Cupitt
1947-1952
Charterhouse School
1952-1954
Exhibition to study Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1954-1955
Changes degree to theology
1955-1957
National Service, Royal Signals
1957-1959
Westcott House, Cambridge to train for ordination
1959-1962
Ordained deacon and undertook curacy at St Philip’s, Salford
1962-1965
Returns to Westcott House as Vice-Principal
1965-1996
Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
1968-1971
Stanton Lectureship
Assistant Lectureship in the Philosophy of Religion
1971
Christ and the Hiddenness of God, London: Lutterworth Press
1972
Crisis of Moral Authority, London: Lutterworth Press
1976
The Leap of Reason, London: Sheldon Press
1977
‘The Christ of Christendom’ & ‘A Final Comment’, Hick, John (ed.), The Myth of God Incarnate, London: SCM Press Ltd.
BBC documentary Who Was Jesus?
Link to the programme can be found on Prof Mark Goodacre’s blog
1980
Taking Leave of God, London: SCM Press
1984
BBC TV series The Sea of Faith
The Sea of Faith, London: BBC Publishing
1987
The Long-Legged Fly. A Theology of Language and Desire, London: SCM Press
1989
Radicals and the Future of the Church, London: SCM Press
1995
Solar Ethics, London: SCM Press
1996
Retires as Dean of Emmanuel and University Lecturer
Elected Life Fellow of Emmanuel College
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1998
Mysticism after Modernity, Oxford: Blackwells
The Religion of Being, London: SCM Press
The Revelation of Being, London: SCM Press
1999
The New Religion of Life in Everyday Speech, London: SCM Press
2003
Life, Life, Santa Rosa, CA: Polebridge Press
2004
Cupitt Festschrift
Hyman, Gavin, (ed.) New Directions in Philosophical Theology
Essays in Honour of Don Cupitt, London: Routledge. (with bibliography to 2003)
2010
The Fountain. A Secular Theology, London: SCM Press
2016