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Don Cupitt's attraction to buddhism in contrast to Keith Ward's attraction to the vedanta—An analysis

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…we must now conceive God in terms appropriate to our modern understanding of ourselves and the world, just as those earlier generations conceived God in terms drawn from and appropriate to their understanding of human life and those powers with which it had to come to terms. [Gorden Kaufman]

…it is, in my view, significant that within these [five religious] traditions there are convergences of thought which make it reasonable to speak of them as ultimately concerned with one common object and goal of human existence. [Keith Ward]

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Notes and References

  1. Kaufman, G., (1985),Theology for a Nuclear Age, p. 42.

  2. Ward, K., (1987),Images of Eternity: Concepts of God in Five Religious Traditions, p. 181.

  3. Ward, K., (1982),Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don Cupitt, p. 1.

  4. Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 2.

  5. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 99.

  6. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. xi.

  7. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 17.

  8. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 17.

  9. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 18.

  10. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 19.

  11. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 15.

  12. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 32.

  13. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 84.

  14. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 56.

  15. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 85.

  16. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 101.

  17. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 3.

  18. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1980),Taking Leave of God, p. 96.

  19. Cupitt, D., (1989),Radicals and the Future Church, p. 100.

  20. Cupitt, D., (1988)The New Christian Ethics p. 9.

  21. Humphreys, C., (1962),Buddhism, p. 22.

  22. Ward, K., (1987),Images of Eternity: Concepts of God in Five Religious Traditions, pp. 61–2.

  23. Cupitt, D., (1989),op. cit. The New Christian Ethics, p. 137.

  24. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1989),The New Christian Ethics, p. 135.

  25. ibid., Cupitt, D., (1989),The New Christian Ethics, p. 142.

  26. Reugg, D.S., (1981),The Literature of the Madhyamaka School of Philosophy in India, p. 6.

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  28. Murti, T.R.V., (1970),The Central Philosophy of buddhism, p. 209.

  29. ibid., Murti, T.R.V., (1970),The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, p. 209.

  30. ibid., Murti, T.R.V., (1970),The Central Philosophy of Buddhism, p. 206.

  31. Nagao, G., (Keenan, J.P., Trans.), (1989),The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, pp. 4–6.

  32. ibid., Nagao, G., (Keenan, J.P., Trans.), (1989),The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, p. 142.

  33. ibid., Nagao, G., (Keenan, J.P., Trans.), (1989),The Foundational Standpoint of Madhyamika Philosophy, p. 143.

  34. Cupitt, D., (1980),op. cit., The New Christian Ethics, p. 79.

  35. Ward, K., (1982),Holding Fast to God: A Reply to, Don Cupitt, p.x.

  36. Ward, K., (1982),Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 1.

  37. Ward, K., (1982),Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don, Cupitt, p. 15.

  38. ibid., Ward, K., (1982),Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don Cupitt, p. 14.

  39. ibid., Ward, K., (1982),Holding Fast to God: A Reply to Don Cupitt, p. 28.

  40. Ward, K., (1993),Beyond the Crisis in Christianity: A Vision to Pursue, (Notes, Victoria University Lectures).

  41. Ward, K., (1982),Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 1.

  42. ibid., Ward, K., (1982),Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 3.

  43. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God alsoHolding Fast to God

  44. Ward, K., (1993), op cit.,Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, (Notes, Victoria University Lectures)

  45. Ward, K., (1987), op cit.,Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 134.

  46. Lott, E., (1980),Vedantic approaches to God, p. 20.

  47. op. cit., Lott, E., (1980),Vedantic approaches to God, p. 20.

  48. ibid., Lott, E., (1980),Vedantic approaches to God, p. 135.

  49. TheUpanisads are regarded by Sankara as the key texts, by which the true nature of Reality can be known. See Murty, S., (1959),Revelation and Reason in Advaita Vedanta, pp. 81–90

  50. Lott, E., (1980),op cit., Vedantic approaches to God, p. 19. See also., p. 4.

  51. Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 162.

  52. ibid., Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 153.

  53. ibid., Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 50.

  54. ibid., Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 51.

  55. ibid., Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 3.

  56. ibid., Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 159–60.

  57. ibid., Ward, K., (1987),op. cit. Rational Theology and the Creativity of God, p. 174.

  58. Ward, K., (1991),A Vision to Pursue: Beyond the Crisis in Christianity, p. 208.

  59. ibid., Ward, K., (1991),A Vision to Pursue: Beyond the Crisis in Christianity, p. 194.

  60. ibid., Ward, K., (1991),A Vision to Pursue: Beyond the Crisis in Christianity, p. 208.

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Vitalis, H. Don Cupitt's attraction to buddhism in contrast to Keith Ward's attraction to the vedanta—An analysis. SOPH 34, 74–87 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02772294

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