The World to Come: From Christian Past to Global Future - Softcover
Geering, Lloyd
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Lloyd Geering was made Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit topping New Zealand's new year's honors list for 2001. This is the first time the strictly New Zealand honors have been given. Previously New Zealand granted Imperial Honors, under which Lloyd Geering would have been made a knight commander.
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Previously honored in 1988 as a Companion of the British Empire, Lloyd Geering is a public figure of considerable renown in New Zealand where he is in constant demand as a lecturer and as a commentator on religion and related matters on both television and radio. In 1966, he published an article on "The Resurrection of Jesus" and, in 1967, another on "The Immortality of the Soul," which together sparked a two-year public, theological controversy that culminated in charges by the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand—of which he is an ordained minister—of doctrinal error and disturbing the peace of the church. After a dramatic, two-day televised trial, the Assembly judged that no doctrinal error had been proved, dismissed the charges and declared the case closed.
"But what happens to Christianity is no longer the primary question. Far more crucial is the future of the world itself. (Perhaps the church should never have become concerned with its own future or that of Christianity, for it was the imminent future of the world that concerned the first Christians.) No nation, religion, or culture can contemplate its future in isolation: as the west leaves Christendom behind, the whole world is entering a new age. All of humankind is being forced to think and act globally. The most important issues before us now (or one could refer to them as the chief religious questions) are these: what is to be the future of humankind in the post-Christian world? What is to be the future of planet earth?" (p. 89)
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- PublisherBridget Williams Books
- Publication date1999
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- ISBN 13 9781877242021
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 175 pages. In Lloyd Geering's most controversial book so far , he examines the world at the end of the twentieth century, with the wisdom of a man who has lived through much of it. The Christ ian era is coming to an end: after two thousand years the religio us faith which shaped western civilisation has been found wanting . After examining the reasons for Christianity's decline, the aut hor writes eloquently about the likely shape of the global future . People everywhere will recognise his concerns at the turn of th e century -- the fragility of the environment, the population exp losion, the conflict of cultures, the deepening poverty, the ongo ing nuclear threat. This is a book about endings, and about poten tial catastrophes. Yet Lloyd Geering also offers hope . he sket ches a future global society arising out of our increasing awaren ess of the current human predicament and of our dependence on the earth. The evolution of global consciousness could provide the s piritual dimension of the coming global culture, and enable the e artyh and its inhabitants to survive. The future of this world to come is in our hands.--Back cover. Seller Inventory # 1480aj
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