A New Great Story

Don Cupitt

“In this book I aim to set before the general reader a fully modern alternative to the traditional Grand Narrative theology of Latin, or Western, Christianity.” So begins A New Great Story. Christianity’s classic “plan of salvation”—its so-called grand narrative—was a vast myth of cosmic Creation, Fall and Redemption. Earth-centered and supernaturalist, it was fatally damaged by Galileo and later astronomers, and by historians of human origins. Don Cupitt rewrites that traditional narrative as a new story of how religion called us out of nature and gradually made us ourselves—social beings in an ordered world, language-using and self-aware.

Polebridge Press
2010, 144 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-1-598150-26-1

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