Belief in God has been a cornerstone of Christian faith. The idea of a supernatural being who created and sustains the universe was thought fundamental to Christianity, as it was to the other two great monotheistic religions. But just as the bible ceased, in the nineteenth century, to be convincing as the source of divinely revealed knowledge, so the twentieth century has witnessed the failure of the conventional idea of God.

Does this ‘death of God’ spell the end of the whole Christian tradition? Or does it simply mean the end of conventional Christian doctrine? Christianity Without God affirms the latter, treating Christian culture as living and evolving stream.

Lloyd Geering sees the modern secular form of Christian culture as the logical consequence of the basic doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. He links modern humanism with the neglected Wisdom stream of the Old Testament. Christianity Without God looks forward to a world with faith, not a world lacking God. For, as Lloyd Geering cogently argues, it is the cultivation of the wisdom of Christianity that the world now needs, not a supernatural saviour.

Endorsements                                              

'Lloyd Geering refuses to let faith stagnate. He punctuates pieties of the past to find within the bible alternative voices to dying traditions. His own voice speaks eloquently for a Christianity vital to a rapidly changing world.' Phyllis Trible, Baldwin Professor of Sacred Literature, Emerita, Union Theolgoical Seminary, New York

'Lloyd Geering has produced a stunning, provocative, panoramic view of the evolution of Christianity in this new book. Christianity has reached the stage at which it must learn to exist without God – without an external authority figure who blesses and condemns arbitrarily. In place of that deity, he challenges us to assume responsibility for ourselves and for the earth we have inherited.' Robert W. Funk, Director, Westar Institute, Founder, Jesus Seminar

Contents                                                       

Foreword
1.  An absurd question?
2.  What is Christianity?
3.  Who made God?
4.  Has God died and, if so, why?
5.  Why did Christians invent the Holy Trinity?
6.  How did Jesus become God?
7.  How did God become man?
8.  Where did humanism begin?
9.  Was Jesus the wise man par excellence?
10. Why Christianity must become non-theistic
Notes
Bibliography
Index