Tag: lloyd geering

We are living in an exciting age, an age of axial change, moving beyond the findings discovered in the Enlightenment, beyond the descent into reactionary capitalism and beyond fundamentalism into an age of globalized religion.

Recently in the SFAV’s web conversations there have been a number of comments posted, most using a peculiar and often rather flawed method of justification. I do not exempt myself from this criticism. I have seen in particular numerous references to sacred scriptures, usually the Christian Bible, and references to tradition; these are both calls to authority. However, there is very little use of scientific historical method, linguistics, or sociology and anthropology.

In several recent conversations on this web site, there has been much quoting from the Bible. I’m impressed with our ability to use the Bible, yet I’m at the same time dismayed that the way we use it often seems self-serving. The major uses, or misuses if you will, center around picking out passages from the post-Easter stories and theorizing from the Bible's many writers, and the lack of a thorough use of the pre-Easter parables and words attributed to Jesus.

This is a review of "Christianity Without God" by Lloyd Geering, "The Historical Jesus Goes to Church" By Arthur Dewey and "Can a Renewal Movement be Renewed? Questions for the Future of Ecumenism" by Michael Kinnamon.