ABSTRACT
With each generation comes a new subject for Christians to disagree about, and in the later twentieth century this was the very doctrine of God himself. Don Cupitt's movement towards a Christianity in which God was increasingly spoken of as a projection of human aspiration aroused great controversy, not least because the direct alternative is clearly also an inadequate theology. As Eric Kemp wrote with a hint of betrayal and scandal, "without any of us knowing, he had become involved with a group led by the radical Cambridge theologian, Don Cupitt, calling itself 'The Sea of Faith'". The theology is disappointing in feeling able to draw a theory of discipline undigested from the New Testament and early Church sources without any thorough consideration of the sorts of issues raised in this study about the realities of exercising discipline in a Church of flawed sinners.
