Reimagining God The Faith Journey of a Modern Heretic edition by Lloyd Geering Religion Spirituality eBooks
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Described by the BBC as "the last living heretic," Lloyd Geering has spent much of his life wrestling with God. Of late, however, he finds himself struggling with the absence of God. The rise of nonreligious, secular culture around the world testifies that he is not alone, that the concept of God has become problematical. Should God be abandoned altogether? Can God be reformed, so to speak?
Drawing from theology, science and his own faith journey-from his call to ministry, through his much-publicized heresy trial, to decades of public speaking, teaching and writing, Geering retraces key developments in the Western understanding of God. He imagines a new spirituality, one that blends a relationship to the natural world with a celebration of the rich inheritance of human culture.
Reimagining God The Faith Journey of a Modern Heretic edition by Lloyd Geering Religion Spirituality eBooks
This should become a classic! Gearing is, in this book, laying the groundwork for the salvation of the churches. That they need salvation is obvious. First, they are fading, people not attending, or attending from habit and second, the churches are needed as the bearers of the mythology, that is the truth hidden in mystery which evades the direct path of knowledge.He lays out the problem: Every theology is built with reference to the science of its day. For example when the theology now preached in the churches was developed the possibility of a God surrounded by happy souls in a place called heaven fit our complete ignorance on what lay beyond the blue of the skies. My grandson, recently graduated from kindergarten, corrected the adults at the Thanksgiving dinner on their misunderstandings of the number, size and order of the planets. If I tell him about heaven he is going to ask "Where is it?" and expect me to point it out. I am not going to risk my good standing as an intelligent human being with him and yet my local preacher still thinks its up there somewhere, or, no he is not that out of the stream, he talks as if he thinks its up there somewhere, and shakes the confidence of all kindergarten and up pew sitters, not only in the theology but in his credibility.
So we need a new theology, starting with a new Image for God. This, he points out, is not as radical a task as it might seem since all images of God in the past have been the product of human imagination why not put our century's imagination influenced by our century's science to work on what God might be like. Way back our ancestors imagined God as living in a box they carried around, then in a temple. Once God was local to the Hebrews, fighting their fights against other and lesser gods. Now God looks a lot like Aristotle dreamed him, the unmoved mover. Knowing what we know, can we not come closer to the mark than those who knew less?
Lloyd Geering then gives us a perfectly reasonable hypothesis for God using evolutionary principles, (Teilhard Chardin), and depth psychology, (Carl Jung) and several of the great philosophers of all the times. Is it the final depiction of God? Did he get it right? Of course not. But it fits our times and if our science is more accurate than the science of Aristotle, he is probably closer to the mark. (The Hebrews avoided saying God's name because they did not want to give the impression that they thought they knew him.)
While I like Geering's theology, that is not the point. What he, I hope, will succeed in doing is to hallow the work of reimagining. It's what we should have been doing since the time of Galileo at least. This book shakes us out of a deadly rut and could put the churches back in the business of guiding the faithful instead of embarrassing them.
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We're reading and discussing this book in a Thurday afternoon group. Just getting started but I love Geering clear and simple style. Others have written what he writes but few with such humor and clarity.
A beautiful journey through the evolution of Christian thought today. Geering articulates the future of Christianity and clear and understandable terms.
Filled with great theological essays for progressive Christians. Some chapters can be challenging as it is quite intellectual and complex in presentation, but a great read for those interested in considering God/Christianity in a new light. Placing traditional Christian teachings in the historical context with great thinkers of the past is very enlightening.
I really enjoyed this collection of essays/lectures. While somewhat repetitive, I found them very thought provoking. I will be working through a few of these papers again for sure.
This book appeals to my search for an honest effort to seek the truth regardless of the circumstances that may ensue.
In addition the author provides the cure for the loss any reader might suffer from reading it in a very positive way. The way out from what has kept us in the dark and from realizing just how wonderful is light that has been turned to briteness and comfort.
An ongoing study of various philosophies regarding God and developing a relationship rather than reimagining what I think a God should be, but as I study and discuss these philosophies a more clear understanding of my own vision occurs..
This is a great book for those who want to explore the history of doubt in religion. My ranking probably can be explained by the fact that he expresses my own views so elegantly. It is of special interest to me since it is the journey of an ordained minister in the protestant church.
This should become a classic! Gearing is, in this book, laying the groundwork for the salvation of the churches. That they need salvation is obvious. First, they are fading, people not attending, or attending from habit and second, the churches are needed as the bearers of the mythology, that is the truth hidden in mystery which evades the direct path of knowledge.
He lays out the problem Every theology is built with reference to the science of its day. For example when the theology now preached in the churches was developed the possibility of a God surrounded by happy souls in a place called heaven fit our complete ignorance on what lay beyond the blue of the skies. My grandson, recently graduated from kindergarten, corrected the adults at the Thanksgiving dinner on their misunderstandings of the number, size and order of the planets. If I tell him about heaven he is going to ask "Where is it?" and expect me to point it out. I am not going to risk my good standing as an intelligent human being with him and yet my local preacher still thinks its up there somewhere, or, no he is not that out of the stream, he talks as if he thinks its up there somewhere, and shakes the confidence of all kindergarten and up pew sitters, not only in the theology but in his credibility.
So we need a new theology, starting with a new Image for God. This, he points out, is not as radical a task as it might seem since all images of God in the past have been the product of human imagination why not put our century's imagination influenced by our century's science to work on what God might be like. Way back our ancestors imagined God as living in a box they carried around, then in a temple. Once God was local to the Hebrews, fighting their fights against other and lesser gods. Now God looks a lot like Aristotle dreamed him, the unmoved mover. Knowing what we know, can we not come closer to the mark than those who knew less?
Lloyd Geering then gives us a perfectly reasonable hypothesis for God using evolutionary principles, (Teilhard Chardin), and depth psychology, (Carl Jung) and several of the great philosophers of all the times. Is it the final depiction of God? Did he get it right? Of course not. But it fits our times and if our science is more accurate than the science of Aristotle, he is probably closer to the mark. (The Hebrews avoided saying God's name because they did not want to give the impression that they thought they knew him.)
While I like Geering's theology, that is not the point. What he, I hope, will succeed in doing is to hallow the work of reimagining. It's what we should have been doing since the time of Galileo at least. This book shakes us out of a deadly rut and could put the churches back in the business of guiding the faithful instead of embarrassing them.
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