Research Catalog

Title

The world to come : from Christian past to global future / Lloyd Geering.

Author

Geering, Lloyd George.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books ; Santa Rosa, Calif. : Polebridge Press, 1999.

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Description

175 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 Christian era is coming to an end: after two thousand years the religious faith which shaped western civilisation has been found wanting. After examining the reasons for Christianity's decline, the author writes eloquently about the likely shape of the global future. People everywhere will recognise his concerns at the turn of the century -- the fragility of the environment, the population explosion, the conflict of cultures, the deepening poverty, the ongoing nuclear threat. This is a book about endings, and about potential catastrophes. Yet Lloyd Geering also offers hope ... he sketches a future global society arising out of our increasing awareness of the current human predicament and of our dependence on the earth. The evolution of global consciousness could provide the spiritual dimension of the coming global culture, and enable the eartyh and its inhabitants to survive. The future of this "world to come" is in our hands." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Forecasting
• Christian civilization
• Christianity > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. [169]-172) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The end of the Christian era (The end of the Millennium ; The decline of Christian civilisation ; The disintegration of orthodoxy ; The failure of Christian modernism ; The Christiam stream of influence ; The discovery of relativity) -- The beginning of the global era (A post-Christian future ; Globalisation ; Humanity at war with itself ; Humanity at war with the planet ; Scenarios of the future ; A faith for the future)

ISBN

1877242020

OCLC

59414309

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library