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Don Cupitt on Jesus as Philosopher

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The Meta-Philosophy of Christianity

Christianity is not the same as either Judaism or Islam, both of which have preferred to remain religions of divine law. Jesus introduces a more horizontal morality of human relationships and breaks with old vertical religious morality. He marks the end of the old cosmic king idea of God. Christianity does have a radically humanistic vision of the world. All things are yours, so St Paul has a kind of vision of human sovereignty,. The world's a human world.

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