Alan Goss reviews Marcus Borg’s The Heart of Christianity, which proposes a renewed Christianity built on a panentheistic God and Jesus as metaphor, though Goss says Borg does not go as far as radicals.
Alan Goss reviews Lloyd Geering’s booklet Fundamentalism, which traces Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalism, its threat to churches and society, and the need for a stronger liberal voice.
Review of Lloyd Geering’s booklet Who Owns the Holy Land? on Jewish and Palestinian claims, British responsibility and the prospect of a religiously neutral state. The review first appeared in the NZ newsletter.
Alan Goss reports on New Zealand SoF’s ninth conference on identity and belonging, with Lloyd Geering honoured. The text begins with a stray note on the Ten Hypotheses and ends as a Holloway review opens.
Alan Goss reviews Robert Funk’s Honest to Jesus, which separates the historical Jesus from the gospel portraits and the creeds and argues that followers replaced Jesus’s vision of God’s kingdom with devotion to Jesus himself.
Alan Goss reviews Gordon Kaufman’s In Face of Mystery, a 461-page reconstruction of Christian theology. Kaufman drops the personal God ‘out there’ and reinterprets Christ, Trinity and creation in terms of evolution, interpersonal relations and...
