ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Don Cupitt's primary contribution to religious literacy in general, and to Christian thinking in particular, is as a spiritual writer. This is likely to be his most lasting influence. Don Cupitt's concern with spirituality was particularly to the fore in his initial move from theological liberalism to a radical religious non-realism that denied that there could be any saving knowledge of an objective, individual, world-creating and ruling God. Over the years some emphases have changed, as Cupitt's thought has became more explicitly postmodern and more universally anti-realist. Traditionally, however, since the spiritual orientations are understood to be derived from the relation with God, this has been coupled with a vertical dimension, the 'transcendent within' that answers to 'the transcendent without'. Non-realist faith 'on the level', however, denies the vertical.
