Crisis of Moral Authority

This book was written in 1970 in the days when even the Church Times was welcoming Don Cupitt as a stalwart believer. However as the author now points out it is an important pointer to the future. The straitlaced early Cupitt is obviously struggling to prevent the later Cupitt from bursting out.'Its starting point was straightforward enough. Many perhaps most of the great critics of Christianity have rejected it chiefly on moral grounds. Yet because they have tended to suffer from an entrenched sense of their own moral superiority Christians have never really taken this fact seriously enough and so have failed fully to understand one very important factor in the modern world's rejection of faith The idea was therefore to outline the principal moral criticisms of Christianity in order to discover how strong they are and what should be done about them.This was the beginning of a course which took Don Cupitt as he himself confesses much further than he ever expected. Many have parted company on the way at various stages; they and those who find what Don Cupitt says speaks to them more than most modern theology will find that these early stages in retrospect make fascinating reading.