Cupitt Timeline

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

Available on YouTube

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

Ethics in the Last Days of Humanity, OR: Polebridge Press