Sea of Faith

[4] Following the television series, a small group of radical Christian clergy and laity began meeting to explore how they might promote this new understanding of religious faith.

[7] Currently there are national networks in the UK, New Zealand and Australia with scattered membership in the USA, Northern Ireland, South Africa, France and The Netherlands.

[11] Non-realism therefore entails a rejection of all supernaturalism, including concepts such as miracles, the afterlife, and the agency of spirits.

[12] Cupitt wrote, "God is the sum of our values, representing to us their ideal unity, their claims upon us and their creative power,"[13] Cupitt calls this "a voluntarist interpretation of faith: a fully demythologized version of Christianity,"[12] It entails the claim that even after we have given up the idea that religious beliefs can be grounded in anything beyond the human realm, religion can still be believed and practised in new ways.

[15] In his early books such as Taking Leave of God and The Sea of Faith Cupitt talks of God alone as non-real,[16] but by the end of the 1980s he moved into postmodernism, describing his position as empty radical humanism:[17] that is, there is nothing but our language, our world, and the meanings, truths and interpretations that we have generated.

Members are free to dissent from his views and Cupitt himself has argued strongly that Sea of Faith should never be a fan club.

[12] Alvin Plantinga called the movement "an amiable sort of dottiness,"[19] Anthony Campbell also pointed to the contradictions in Cupitt's intellectual project.