More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion

Don Cupitt: theological pioneer?

“…This, too, held that religion was less a matter of propositional or credal belief and more to do with inhabiting a world of meaning in which ideas of 'the sacred' were drawn from everyday life and material culture. 36 This stressed religion as a way of life in which resources from the everyday world -popular images, symbols and narratives -formed the raw material from which people fashioned a set of beliefs and attitudes towards life's most profound experiences. Jeff Astley's work on 'ordinary theology', focused on theological education, had a similar emphasis Christian formation by emphasizing everyday experience rather than doctrine.…”