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GEERING, Lloyd

New Zealand's best-known and most controversial commentator on theological issues.

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GEERING, Lloyd (1918 - ) is New Zealand's best-known and most controversial commentator on theological issues. A Presbyterian minister, he turned to theological teaching in 1956. He is an Emuritus Professor of Victoria University of Wellington, where he taught for many years in the religious studies department, and was formerly Professor of Old Testament Studies and Principal of Knox College Theological Hall in Dunedin.

Geering is best remembered by many New Zealanders for the high-profile 1967 trial in which he faced charges of heresy for his controversial statements.

He is a Companion of the British Empire and in 2001 was named a Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

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The 20th century has witnessed the failure of the conventional idea of God. In Christianity Without God (2002), Geering responds to some of the pressing concerns of contemporary religion.