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Jesus had preached the arrival of Kingdom. It was time to start living the life of the Last World, as if you were standing at the very end of Time. And that is the position in which I find myself, a secular Christian at the end of my world. At times I have called my religion ‘Emptiness and Brightness’, ‘Empty radical humanism’, ‘the religion of life’, and ‘Kingdom theology’. It’s nothing very special; it’s where we post-Christian Westerners now are. And I rather like it: I’m not complaining.

A secular Christian is a person committed to the critical way of thinking and person for whom there is only one world, and it is this world; only one life, and it is this life. People may well think that Christianity is the hardest religion of all to modernize, because it is much more committed than any other faith to an elaborate system of belief about the supernatural world from which people came, with which they interact daily, and into which the will at last return: the world of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; of St Michael and all the nine orders of angels; of the Blessed Virgin and all the several thousands saints: a world in which people believe in many sorts of supernatural Assistance such as healings, gifts of divine Grace, and supernatural knowledge imparted to people by revelation, illumination, and inspiration.

Radical Christianity is a form of radical humanism and it is focused on this world. Cupitt answers several questions regarding God, Christianity, religion, spirituality and theology.

In late antiquity, and especially during the first two or three centuries of the Christian era, it was common for philosophers to be wandering teachers. In art, and especially in Hellenistic sculpture, the philosopher is simply a Greek man of indeterminate age who carries a cloak, a book and not much else. Arriving in a city, he would seek out a suitable place for his teaching, either by renting a hall or perhaps by simply commandeering a good pitch in the agora or market-place. He would then attempt to win followers by criticizing other philosophers and the current state of religion, and putting forward his own teaching about the good life. It was hard work: selling your philosophy to the multitude was quite as difficult then as it is today. But being an itinerant himself, it seemed natural enough to the philosopher that he should picture all of human life as an arduous journey through time in pursuit of the Summum Bonum, the Highest Good, a goal that would be finally attained only beyond death in the eternal world that is our true and last home. At the very beginning of Christian art, Jesus himself was portrayed as having been a wandering philosopher of this type, and so too were those of his followers, from Paul to the Apologists, who had also lived as wandering evangelists.