ABSTRACT
The writings of Don Cupitt are frequently taken to be the very epitome of theistic anti-realism. This chapter explores the contrastive anti-realism of Taking Leave of God. The importance of Cupitt for an examination of theism and realism lies in this: for many people interested in religious questions he has passed on and applied the thought of postmodernism. It is part and parcel of postmodernist critical theory to reject the grand theory embedded in the so-called Enlightenment Project. It is a mistake, according to postmodernist ways of thinking, to expect science to produce a final theory of things or a language for describing reality which will match up to the Language of Nature. Cupitt's global anti-realism is evidently a species of the familiar genus 'linguistic constructivism': language and our symbolic forms in general create reality.
