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Reiterating a theme, Peter Lineham
Reimagining God: The Faith Journey of a Modern Heretic Lloyd Geering Polebridge Press, $37.00, ISBN 9781598151565 Professor Lloyd Geering wrote his first book in 1968. Fifty-six years later, the grand old man is just shy of 100 years old and…
Tagged with: Issue 110, Lloyd Geering, Peter Lineham, Polebridge Press, Winter 2015
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
The good life, Mike Grimshaw
Such is Life! A Close Encounter with Ecclesiastes Lloyd Geering Steele Roberts, $29.99, ISBN 9781877448881 In an email in 2008, Lloyd Geering mentioned that his next project was Ecclesiastes, a longstanding interest, which he noted was also a focus…
Tagged with: Issue 92, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Steele Roberts, Summer 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Handbook for the global Christian, Nicholas Birns
The Lloyd Geering Reader: Prophet of Modernity Paul Morris and Mike Grimshaw (eds) Victoria University Press, $39.99, ISBN 9780864735478 Lloyd Geering is the most famous New Zealand Christian thinker worldwide, though Christopher Marshall is gaining ground with his recent work…
Tagged with: Issue 81, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Nicholas Birns, Paul Morris, Winter 2008
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Songs from the liberal hymn book, Mike Grimshaw
Wrestling with God: The Story of My Life Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.99, ISBN 1877242365 A Religious Atheist?: Critical Essays on the Work of Lloyd Geering Raymond Pelly and Peter Stuart (eds) Otago University Press, $39.95, ISBN 1877372374 The…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 78, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Peter Stuart, Raymond Pelly, Winter 2007
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Religious past, secular present, Bill Logan
Christianity Without God Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1877242241 Wellington Cathedral of St Paul: A History 1840-2001 Michael Blain Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 86473428X This is one of the most secular countries in the Western world, but…
Tagged with: Bill Logan, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 58, Lloyd Geering, Michael Blain, Victoria University Press, Winter 2002
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Sacred and secular, Lloyd Geering
Spirit in a Strange Land: A Selection of New Zealand Spiritual Verse ed Paul Morris, Harry Ricketts & Mike Grimshaw Godwit, $39.95, ISBN 1869620976 The editors are to be warmly commended for taking the initiative in assembling this first anthology…
Tagged with: Godwit, Harry Ricketts, Issue 54, Lloyd Geering, Mike Grimshaw, Paul Morris, Winter 2001
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Religion, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Religion, Review
Nietzsche in conversation with Forest and Bird, Nicholas Reid
The World to Come – From Christian Past to Global Future Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.95, ISBN 1 877 242 020 Consider carefully Lloyd Geering’s use of the word “Christian” in the following sentence from his latest book, The…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 44, Lloyd Geering, Nicholas Reid
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Tomorrow’s symbol, Nicholas Reid
Tomorrow’s God Lloyd Geering Bridget Williams Books, $34.95 Reading Lloyd Geering’s Tomorrow’s God, an anecdote about the late Orson Welles kept surfacing in my mind. Welles was doing the standard talk‑show interview when he decided to hold forth on religion.…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 14, Lloyd Geering, Nicholas Reid, Winter 1994
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Religion, Review
This will cause no stir, Lloyd Geering
Honest to Goodness Humanist Society of New Zealand, $10 This is a collection of short essays, published to celebrate the twenty‑fifth anniversary of the foundation of the Humanist Society of New Zealand. Jim Dakin provides a useful sketch of the…
Tagged with: Autumn 1993, Humanist Society of New Zealand, Issue 8, Lloyd Geering
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Essays, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Our cultural debt to ancient Iraq, Lloyd Geering
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