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The Sea of Faith – Video & Audio Clips

An eclectic collection of on-line audio and video programmes mainly on the non-realist philosophy of Don Cupitt which underpins the Sea of Faith (SoF) network. Some programmes, while not originating with SoF, or being directly about SoF, are relevant and throw some light onto the philosophical and religious outlook of the Sea of Faith.

Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God (15 mins – Audio)

From the Philosophy Bites website. If you do not listen to anything else, listen to this programme as it is a good introduction to the key elements in Cupitt's thinking.

Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher (17 mins – Audio)

From the Philosophy Bites website in which Cupitt, following the Jesus Seminar, interprets Jesus as a peripatetic, ethically radical, sage who made no claim to divinity or to being a redeemer.

Don Cupitt Interview (120 mins)

Alan Macfarlane interviews theologian and writer Don Cupitt about his life and work and beliefs (Feb 2009). From Alan Macfarlane‘s website.

Don Cupitt on the Religion of Life (8 mins)

An excerpt from Don Cupitt's presentation on 'A Theory of Religion' from the Jesus Seminar (Westar Institute) Meeting in 2003 in which he explains his notion of 'Life' as the new idiom for religious faith.

Don Cupitt on Ethics, the body and the state (3 mins)

Exerpt from a longer talk in which Don Cupitt discusses the historical roots of the language of ethics.

Big Questions: Christianity without God (16 mins)

Sea of Faith was featured on BBCs‘s The Big Questions in Jan 2011. The question was “Can you be a Christian but not believe in God?”. Sea of Faith members David Paterson and Dinah Livingstone tackle the question.

Exerpts from 'The Sea of Faith' TV programme

The video of the whole Sea of Faith series is still available from the Sea of Faith Network. Here are some extracts published on YouTube.

Jung (17 mins)

Exerpt on Jung from the Sea of Faith TV series (17 mins)

Kierkegaard (28 mins)

Exerpt on Kierkegaard from the Sea of Faith TV series

Pascal (20 mins)

Exerpt on Pascal from the Sea of Faith TV series.

Wittgenstein (22 mins)

Exerpt on Wittgenstein from the Sea of Faith TV series

Schopenhauer (9 mins)

Exerpt on Schopenhauer from the Sea of Faith TV series

The Good Delusion (60 mins)

The values and beliefs that have sustained us for millennia have been swept up in the whirlwinds of relativism and postmodernism. In response there is a clamour for fundamental values and beliefs. But can we give any meaning to 'the good' or 'the moral' that is not culturally relative? Is the good a fiction we like to believe in? A forum with Steve Fuller, Susan Neiman, Don Cupitt and Amber Carpenter discuss the issue.

The Last Western Heretic (69 mins)

Lloyd Geering is the equivalent of Don Cupitt in New Zealand. A minister in the Presbyterian Church in NZ who held major leadership positions, he was tried for heresy in the 1970's. Although, the trial collapsed, his denial of the objective existence of God and the bodily resurrection of Christ, the efficacy of prayer and the reality of the immortal soul created great scandal in the church. The video, in ten short parts, tells the story of this 'turbulent priest'. It was originally screened on NZ TV.

The God Problem (8 mins)

Excerpt from Nigel Leaves‘ presentation on 'The God Problem' from the Jesus Seminar (Westar Institute) meeting in 2005 in which he talks about the problem of how we conceptualise God in a post-modern age.

Testing God – Killing the Creator (50 mins – Video)

A BBC4 TV programme investigating how advances in scientific knowledge seem to have squeezed God out of the picture. The God who explains how the world came into being is now dead. Don Cupitt participates.

Great Issues Forum: What Is Religion? (56 mins – Video)

Karen Armstrong talks about the many misunderstandings of religion. (From the fora.tv website).

Buddhism without Beliefs (30 mins – Video)

Thirty minute documentary on Stephen Batchelor's form of naturalistic Buddhism. Broadcasted on Dutch national television in 2008. It was made for the Boeddhistische Omroep Stichtung (BOS). The first independent Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation in the West to produce and broadcast Buddhist programmes.

Good without God (5 mins – Video)

Greg Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard talks about what it means to be focused on living a good life without a religious faith.

Concentration & Religion (10 mins – Audio)

Alain de Botton reflects on how difficult it is for us to concentrate nowadays and what we might learn from religious practice. (A BBC radio podcast)

Secular Humanism (11 mins – Audio)

In this Philosophy Bites programme Professor Richard Norman describes non-religious or secular Humanism. It provides a useful contrast with the 'radical religious Humanism' of Don Cupitt. Is it the same or are there important differences?

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