ABSTRACT
The motto which M. Heidegger chose for his collected works could well be applied to Don Cupitt's 'path of thinking' — 'ways not works'. Since Life Lines Cupitt has made clear his belief that, as a thinker, he is free to move on from positions once held. First, then, to Cupitt's view of Kierkegaard. In both Taking Leave of God and The Sea of Faith the primary role allotted to Kierkegaard is that of having brought about the 'turn to the subject' in modern religious thought. Cupitt is well on the way away from Kierkegaard into the new landscapes opened up by radical French philosophy. Cupitt states that, unlike some traditions of philosophical theology, he does not want to take 'Being' as a name for God. To do so would be once more to remove the focus of religious attention away from the world, to objectify Being and make an idol of it.
