A Religious Atheist?: Critical Essays on the Work of Lloyd Geering

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During his lifetime, internationally celebrated New Zealand thinker and author Lloyd Geering has published numerous thought-provoking books on the nature of religious belief - and has also been tried for heresy (in 1967). This book critiques Geering's now well-known religious atheism in terms of its philosophical underpinnings. The authors look at the justifications of 'Geeringism', in particular his rejection of the cognitive content (and other aspects) of Christian belief, and illuminate not only the specifics of his approach to the age-old question 'How are we to live?', but also the wider set of ideas from which such issues have arisen. Contents: 1 Reading Lloyd Geering 2 Are Religious Beliefs Human Projections? 3 Secularisation: An Outmoded Concept? 4 Lloyd Geering and the End of Resurrection 5 Revisioning the Reality of God 6 Religion without God? 7 The Inventing of Myths, Gods and Paradise 8 Lloyd Geering without Church 9 Does Geering's Thought have a Mystical Side? 10 Secular Supersessionism: Geering, Jews and Judaism First published September 2006

Table of contents

Introduction; Reading Lloyd Geering; Are Religious Beliefs Human Projections?; Secularisation: An Outmoded Concept?; Resurrexit: Geering and the End of Resurrection; Revisionary Theology: Realism and Non-realism; Religion Without God?; The Inventing of Myths, Gods, and Paradise; Lloyd Geering Without Church; Does Geering's Thought Have a Mystical Side?; Secular Supersessionism: Geering, Jews and Judaism.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9781877372377
• Publisher : Otago University Press
• Imprint : Otago University Press
• Publication date : October 2006
• Dimensions : 230mm X 150mm
• Produced in : New Zealand
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : colour & b/w illus
• Pages : 205
• Dewey classification : 230.01
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Raymond Pelly