SeaofFaith

Sea of Faith was a six-part documentary television series, presented on BBC television in 1984 by Don Cupitt. The programme dealt with the history of Christianity in the modern world, focussing especially on how Christianity has responded to challenges such as scientific advances, political atheism and secularisation in general. Each programme focussed on one religious figure and one figure who was portrayed as advancing secularisation as follows:The first programme was about Blaise Pascal and his Christian responses to the philosophy of Rene Descartes; The second programme dealt with Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung; The third programme dealt with Karl Marx as an atheist and Soren Kierkegaard as a Christian; The final programme dealt with Friedrich Nietzsche, described as the most thorough-going of all the atheists, and the man described in the Radio Times as the most enigmatic Christian of the twentieth century - Ludwig Wittgenstein.