Author: Lloyd Geering

Lloyd Geering argues that an ecological spirituality must drop the dualisms of God and world, spirit and matter, and humans and planet, and that the doctrine of incarnation offers Christianity a route to it.

Lloyd Geering reviews Karen Armstrong’s A History of God, which traces how God has been understood in Judaism, Christianity and Islam over 4,000 years and asks whether God has a future.

Lloyd Geering reviews A.N. Wilson’s Jesus, a journalist’s portrait of the human Jesus and an account of how Wilson lost his Christianity, and recommends further reading on the historical Jesus.

Lloyd Geering reviews John Dominic Crossan’s Jesus, a Revolutionary Biography, which treats the birth and resurrection stories as legend and myth and presents Jesus as a radical egalitarian, comparable to Spong’s use of midrash.

Lloyd Geering reviews Jill Paton Walsh’s novel Knowledge of Angels, a medieval fable in which an atheist castaway debates the existence of God with priests, comparing medieval and modern thought.

Lloyd Geering reviews Paul Davies’s The Last Three Minutes, which explores possible futures of the universe and ends by asking whether a purposeful universe must end.

Lloyd Geering reviews Don Cupitt’s The Last Philosophy, which holds that this life and world are final and that both God and moral law are human inventions, and he recommends it for study groups.

Lloyd Geering reviews John Spong’s Resurrection: Myth or Reality?, which reads the Easter stories as midrash expressing the disciples’ experience, rather than as history.

The Participatory Mind by Henryk Skolimowski. Reviewed by Lloyd Geering, SOF NZ Newsletter #15, March 1996