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Title: Faith's new age : a perspective on contemporary religious change by Lloyd George Geering ISBN: 0-00-215282-7 Publisher: Collins Pub. Date: 1980 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Geering gets it wrong...again
Comment: Lloyd Geering, like John Dominic Crossan, Marcus Borg and others associated with The Jesus Seminar, lost faith in a divine Jesus Christ nearly 40 years ago, resulting in Lloyd's case in a celebrated heresy trial because of his position as an ordained Presbyterian minister.

Like Crossan, he is selective with the facts and those that don't support his contentions mysteriously disappear, leaving the uneducated reader thinking Geering has got it sussed.

Their publications are like those of lawyers taking a case, precisely but conveniently argued. Sadly, when put to the test against all the evidence, not just parts of it, they don't stack up.

When Crossan, Geering and others can answer the criticisms levelled at them by Gary Habermas, Craig Blomberg, Greg Boyd or William Lane Craig, maybe then they'll deserve to be taken seriously.

In the meantime, caveat emptor. This book will be a comfort for those who don't want to accept a divine Christ, and that's fine, but as a scholarly work, it doesn't rate in my opinion.

Rating: 5
Summary: History of Religion
Comment: Every religion has a history, and religion in general has a history. In the hands of a skillful author like Geering, those histories make a fascinating story. Geering sees the first major threshold of religious change taking place in a period called the "Axial Age": 800-200 BCE. During those years Zarathustra in Persia, Gautama the Buddha in India, Confucius in China, the prophets in Israel, King Numal in Rome, the first philosophers in Greece almost simultaneously appeared as reformers of their national religion. A second major threshold of religious change was the period 1600-1800, when a sharp break with medieval civilization ushered in the modern epoch. Now we are in a time often called "post-modern," in which a cataclysmic shift in thinking is again taking place that may well be called a second Axial Age. This book shows the exciting prospects ahead in religious development.