Don Cupitt

Don Cupitt: The Fountain

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Life passes in a torrent of electronic communication and cultural change. Through the metaphor of the fountain, atheist theologian Don Cupitt proposes a deeply original means for reconciling ourselves to time and the transience of life.

VIDEO from IAI

http://iai.tv/video/don-cupitt-the-fountain

Barry C. Smith, Angie Hobbs, Simon Armitage, Don Cupitt. Robert Rowland Smith chairs.

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Ever since Plato described shadows on the walls of the cave, light has been a metaphor for truth. Heaven is full of light. Hell is in darkness. But could it be that darkness offers a richer and more exciting place? Is the potential of the unknown more important than the idea that we can see things how they really are?

VIDEO: Blinded by the Light? (IAI)

http://iai.tv/video/blinded-by-the-light

Don Cupitt, Carlos Frenk, Jo Dunkley. Rachel Armstrong chairs.

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From balloons to doughnuts, and string theory to multiverses, we seem to have as many models of the universe as we do cosmologists. Are we getting closer to answering what came before the universe's beginning and what lies beyond its end, or is a complete theory of the universe an illusion?

VIDEO: After The Beginning, After the End (Institute of Arts and Ideas)

http://iai.tv/video/before-the-beginning-after-the-end

Don Cupitt website here:

http://www.doncupitt.com/doncupitt.html