Book Reviews - By Title

• A Churchless Faith
• A God for this World by Scott Cowdell
• A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos For Revolutionaries by Terry Patten
• After All by Don Cupitt
• After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age by Stephen Batchelor
• After Christianity
• After God
• After Heaven: Spirituality in America Since the 1950s.
• Apologia: Faith Seeking Understanding
• [The] Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
• Before I Die by Jenny Downham
• Being Moral: Illness, Medicine & what matters in the end by Atul Gawande
• [The] Bible In History
• Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy by John Shelby Spong
• Bringing God Back to Earth
• Buddhism Without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
• Candle in a Dark Room: A reappraisal of the Psychology of Religion by Edwin Ezlin
• [The] Changing Faces of Jesus by Geza Vermes
• Christianity Without God by Lloyd Geering (The Case For - rev Janet Trisk)
• Christianity Without God by Lloyd Geering (The Case Against - rev Michael Grimshaw)
• Christianity Without God by Lloyd Geering rev by Alan Goss
• [A] Churchless Faith
• Civil Ceremonies
• [The] Contemporary Jesus
• Cosmos, Chaos and the World To Come
• [The] Costs of Living How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life
• Conclave by Robert Harris
• [A] Course In Miracles
• Creating God, Re-Creating Christ by Ian Harris response to Noel's critique
• Creating God, Re-Creating Christ by Ian Harris rev Noel Cheer
• Creating God, Re-Creating Christ by Ian Harris
• Creation
• Creative Faith: Religion as a Way of Worldmaking by Don Cupitt
• Dark Nature
• [The] Death of God and the Meaning of Life
• [The] Demon Haunted World
• Devout Sceptics
• Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism & Humanism by Bill Cooke
• Does Society Need Religion? by Lloyd Geering
• Doing Theology Ourselves
• Don Cupitt and the Future of Christian Doctrine
• Doubts and Loves : What is Left of Christianity by Richard Holloway
• Dream of the Earth
• e=mc² by David Bodanis
• Earth Currents, The Struggle for the World's Soul
• EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution by Elizabet Sahtouris
• Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Emptiness and Brightness by Don Cupitt (rev by Alan Goss)
• Emptiness and Brightness by Don Cupitt (rev by Lloyd Geering)
• [The] End of Faith by Sam Harris
• Evolution -- a Theory In Crisis
• Faith in Doubt
• Faith in Nature
• Faith is a Journey: Travelling Lighter into the Twenty-First Century by Ailene Pengelly
• Faithiest by Christopher Stedman
• Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers
• Falling for Science:Asking the big questions by Bernard Beckett
• Finite and Infinite Games
• Freedom, Religion and Spirit
• From Monk to Modernity: The Challenge of Modern Thinking by Dominic Kirkham
• From Morality to Meta-Ethics by Fred Fastier
• From the Holy Mountain
• Fundamentalism and Freedom
• Fundamentalism, The Challenge to The Secular World by Lloyd Geering
• [The] Future of God
• [The] Future of Religion by Rorty & Vattimo
• Galileo's Daughter
• Geering Interviews by Michael Grimshaw
• [The] Genesis of God
• God -- A Biography
• God and The New Atheism by John F Haught
• God and the New Physics by Lloyd Geering
• [A] God for this World
• God, Galileo and Geering: A faith for the 21st century by Robert Jones
• God in The Bath by Stephen Mitchell
• God in Us, A Case for Christian Humanism
• God Is NOT ONE by Stephen Prothero
• God's Funeral
• God's Own Green Paradise New Zealand Churches and the Environment
• God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It by Jim Wallis
• [The] God Problem by Nigel Leaves
• [The] Golden Compass (movie) by Philip Pullman
• [The] Gospel of Jesus according to The Jesus Seminar by Robert Funk et al
• [The] Great Questions of Life by Don Cupitt
• [The] Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
• [The] Greening of Christianity by Lloyd Geering
• Hand in Hand: Blending secular and sacred to enlarge the human spirit by Ian Harris
• [The] Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
• Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Heretics -- The Other Side of Early Christianity
• [A] History of God by Karen Armstrong
• Honest to Jesus by Robert Funk
• How Myths have influenced Western Civilisation by Julie Hunter
• How To Read Jung by David Tacey
• [The] Human Cosmos – a Secret History of the Stars by Jo Marchant
• Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How it Drives Civilization by Stephen Cave
• In Defence of Doubt:An invitation to adventure by Val Webb
• In Face of Mystery
• In Praise of the Secular by Lloyd Geering
• Is Christianity Going Anywhere? by Lloyd Geering
• Is Nothing Sacred?
• Isaiah, Man of Sorrows
• Islam, a Short History by Karen Armstrong
• Jesus
• Jesus, a Revolutionary Biography
• [The] Jesus Mysteries
• Jesus of Nazareth by Pope Benedict XVI
• Jesus the Man
• Kingdom Come in Everyday Speech by Don Cupitt
• Knowing the Song: A Companion to the Publications of the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust from 1993 to 2009 by Colin Gibson
• Knowledge of Angels
• [The] Last Philosophy by Don Cupitt
• [The] Last Three Minutes
• Leaving Alexandria:A memory of faith and doubt by Richard Holloway
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
• Liberating The Gospels by John Spong
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Life, Life by Don Cupitt
• Linking Up
• Living With The Devil by Stephen Batchelor
• [The] Lloyd Geering Reader: Prophet of Modernity ed P Morris
• Long White and Cloudy
• Looking in the Distance by Richard Holloway
• []The] Many Faces of Christ by James Stuart
• Mapping The Cosmos by Bharat
• Mark of a Non-Realist: A Contemporary Reading of the Second Gospel
• MATTER & what matters:SOME SCIENCE FOR THE RELIGIOUS & SOME RELIGION FOR SCIENTISTS by Lionel Sharman
• [The] Meaning of Jesus
• [The] Mind of Judas by CK Stead
• Mouth of the Dragon
• Moving Between Times, Modernity and Postmodernity
• Music In The Air by John Thornley
• Mysticism After Modernity by Don Cupitt
• [The] New Believers by Rachel Kohn rev Ian Crumpton
• [The] New Believers by Rachel Kohn
• New Directions in Philosophical Theology
• [The] New Religion of Life in Everyday Speech by Don Cupitt
• [A] New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos For Revolutionaries by Terry Patten
• [The] New Testament in Modern Translation Arranged in Chronological Order by Jim Veitch
• Odyssey on the Sea of Faith: The Life & Writings of Don Cupitt by Nigel Leaves
• On The Bible by Karen Armstrong
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
• One mans religious journey: From Alpha to Omega in faith by Ewing Stevens
• One-dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
• [The] Other Half Of My Soul
• Our Shadowed World by Dominic Kirkham
• [The] Pagan Christ
• Paradise on Earth by Lloyd Geering rev by Alan Goss
• Paradise on Earth by Lloyd Geering rev by Janet Trisk
• Parihaka, A novel
• [The] Participatory Mind
• Past Perfect by Stephen Mitchell
• [The] Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent
• Phantoms in the Brain
• Pharisees and Fallacies by Norman McLean
• Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard by Allen Lane 2019
• Philosophy's Own Religion by Don Cupitt rev by Alan Goss
• Philosophy's Own Religion by Don Cupitt rev by Lloyd Geering
• [The] Planet Remade:How Geoengineering Could Change the World by by Oliver Morton
• Portholes to the Past by Lloyd Geering
• Preaching Post-Theism by David Simmers
• [The] Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics By Kenan Malik
• [The] Qur'an in Translation by Tarij Khalidi
• Radical for 25 years by Noel Cheer
• Radical Theology by Don Cupitt
• Re-imagining God by Rachel Kohn
• Reality Isn't What It used to Be
• Reclaiming the Church: Where the Mainline Church went wrong and what to do about it
• Reformation
• Reforming Christianity by Don Cupitt rev by Alan Goss
• Reforming Christianity by Don Cupitt rev by Lloyd Geering
• Reimagining God: The Faith Journey of a Modern Heretic by Lloyd Geering
• Relaying the Foundations
• [The] Religion of Being by Don Cupitt
• [A] Religious Atheist? (ed Pelly & Stuart)
• Religions in the modern world: traditions and transformations edited by Linda Woodhead et al.
• Resurrection: Myth or Reality?
• Rev-ing it Up
• Revamp: Writings on Secular Buddhism by Winton Higgins
• [The] Revelation of Being by Don Cupitt
• Review of Apologia critique of Spong
• Review of Apologia critique of Veitch
• [The] Road Less Travelled and Beyond
• [The] Rules of Life by Richard Templar
• [A] Sacred Place to Dwell
• Sacred Words
• Sanctuary: The Discovery of Wonder by Julie Leibrich
• Sapiens - A brief history of humankind by Yuval Harari
• Science and the Soul by Charles Birch
• [The] Secular City by Harvey Cox
• Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval, Mediterranean World by Stephen O'Shea
• Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta
• Setting the Gospel Free
• Seven types of Atheism by John Gray
• Shaping Godzone:Public issues & Church values in New Zealand, 1840-2020 by Laurie Guy
• [A] Short History of Myth by Karen Armstong
• Silence in Heaven, a Book of Women's Preaching
• [The] Sins of Scripture by John Spong
• Situation Ethics by Joseph Fletcher
• Slipping The Moorings: A Memoir Weaving Faith with Justice, Ethics and Community by Richard Randerson
• Solar Ethics by Don Cupitt
• [The] Soul of Iran by Afshin Molavi
• [The] Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
• Spirit Abroad
• Spirited Ageing: Cultivating the art of renewal by Juliet Batten
• Sri Ramakrishna, The Great Master
• St Paul versus St Peter
• Stories for Wise People by Julie Hunter
• Surfing on the Sea of Faith: The Ethics and Religion of Don Cupitt by Nigel Leaves
• Telling Lies For God
• The Americal Soul Rush:Esalen and the Rise of Priviledge by Marion Goldman
• The authentic letters of Paul by by Arthur J Dewey, Roy W Hoover, Lane C McGaughy and Daryl D Schmidt
• The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
• The Book of Evan - The work and life of Evan McAra Sherrard. Keith Tudor (editor)
• The Changing Faces of Jesus by Geza Vermes
• The Death of God and the Meaning of Life
• The Faith of the Managers by Stephen Pattison
• The God Problem by Nigel Leaves
• The Great Disruption by Paul Gilding
• The Great Questions of Life by Don Cupitt
• The Heart of Christianity by Marcus Borg
• The Historical Jesus and the Christ of Faith: Need There Be a Conflict?
• The Human Cosmos – a Secret History of the Stars by Jo Marchant
• The Idea of the Holy by Rudolf Otto
• The In-Between Land: Psalms, Poems and Haiku By Mark Gibson
• The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Roszak
• The New Believers by Rachel Kohn
• The Pagan Christ
• The Patterning Instinct by Jeremy Lent
• The Planet Remade:How Geoengineering Could Change the World by by Oliver Morton
• The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics By Kenan Malik
• The rise and fall of Adam and Eve: The story that created us by Stephen Greenblatt
• The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
• The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism by David Mills
• Theology:The Science of God by Robin Boom
• Time and Tide, Sea of Faith beyond the Millennium
• The Secular City by Harvey Cox
• The Sins of Scripture by John Spong
• The Trouble With God by David Boulton
• The Trouble With God by David Boulton
• The Unholy in Holy Scripture
• The Uninhabitable Earth:a story of the future by David Wallace-Wells
• The Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
• The Universe Story -- From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era -- a Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos by Brian Swimm
• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane
• Universal Wisdom
• [The] Uninhabitable Earth:A story of the future by David Wallace-Wells
• [The] Universal Christ by Richard Rohr
• [The] Universe Story
• Unwrapping His Message
• Vashti's Voices: A journal exploring theologies for a just future
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris
• War is a force that gives us meaning
• [The] Way To Happiness
• What Goes On In There?
• What's It All About? by Julian Baggini
• When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship With God by T M Luhrmann
• When Progressives Gather Together: Liturgy, Lectionary, Landscape... And other explorations by Rex Hunt
• Where Do We Find Our Meaning?
• Where have all the Christians Gone?
• Who is Jesus?
• Who On Earth Was Jesus? by David Boulton
• Who On Earth Was Jesus? by David Boulton
• Who ownes the Holy Land? by Lloyd Geering
• Why Christianity Must Change or Die by John Spong
• Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future by Daniel Pink
• Why Weren't We Told? by by Rex A. E. Hunt & John W. H. Smith
• Will The Real Jesus Please Stand Up compile dby David Boulton
• [The] World To Come
• Wrestling With God by Lloyd Geering
• Zealot:The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan