Don Cupitt and the Sea of Faith
July 1 @ 12:00 pm - July 2 @ 4:00 pm
Day 1: Monday 1st July
2:00-2:15pm – Welcome and Introduction
Elaine Graham, Graeme Smith, Catherine Pickstock, Jeremy Caddick and Jeremy Carrette
2:15-3:45pm – Opening Keynote:
Chair: Elaine Graham
Steven Shakespeare
3:45-4:15pm – Tea
4:15-6:00pm – Short Papers on the different episodes of Sea of Faith:
Chair: Catherine Pickstock
- Episode 1, The Mechanical Universe – Copernican revolution. Blaise Pascal and René Descartes. John Cottingham
- Episode 2, The Human Animal – Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Jeremy Carrette
- Episode 3, Going by the Book – Martin Luther, David Strauss, and Albert Schweitzer. James Carleton Paget
7:00-8:30pm – Dinner
(Hall) 8:30-9:30pm – After dinner personal responses
(Chapel) Personal appreciations of Don Cupitt:
Chair: Graeme Smith
- Catherine Pickstock
- George Pattison
- Clare Carlisle
- Alison Webster
Day 2: Tuesday 2nd July
9:30-11:00am
Chair: Graeme Smith/Jeremy Carrette
- Episode 4, Prometheus Unbound – Karl Marx and Søren Kierkegaard. Clare Carlisle/George Pattison
- Episode 5, Religion Shock – Arthur Schopenhauer and Eastern religions. Vivekananda, Hindu missionary. Annie Besant and anthroposophist. Jessica Frazier
- Episode 6, The New World – Friedrich Nietzsche and the death of God. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Gavin Hyman
11:00-11:30am – Coffee
11:30am-12:45pm – Religion and Media : the making of the Sea of Faith
Chair: Elaine Graham
- Rosie Dawson
- Peter Armstrong
12:45-1:30pm – Lunch
1:30-2:30pm – Session on Don Cupitt archive:
Chair: Catherine Pickstock
Elaine Graham and Graeme Smith
2:30-3:00pm – Tea
Chair: Jeremy Carrette
3:00-4:30pm – Final Keynote: Linda Woodhead
4:30pm – Tea and departure
Keynote Speakers
- Steven Shakespeare
- Linda Woodhead
Speakers
- Peter Armstrong
- Clare Carlisle
- James Carleton Paget
- John Cottingham
- Jeremy Carrette
- Rosie Dawson
- Jessica Frazier
- Elaine Graham
- Gavin Hyman
- George Pattison
- Catherine Pickstock
- Graeme Smith