By Lloyd Geering

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"Coming Back to Earth is a very fine, very important book, and I hope it is read widely. You have outlined, in a quite convincing way, the kind of transformation Christian faith must make today in face of the ecological crisis—the most important problem humans have ever had to face." —Gordon Kaufman, Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity, Emeritus, Harvard University

The mainline churches in the Western world are declining, concludes Lloyd Geering, because they are “all out of step” with the modern secular world. This is not so much a result of the supposed renegade behavior of the secular world as the failure of the church to take the next steps in its path of faith. Abraham left his idols behind to go out into the unknown. In contrast, the churches reveal a lack of faith by insisting on an infallible Bible and a set of unchangeable doctrines tailored to an obsolete worldview. In Coming Back to Earth, Geering calls upon us to complete the work of the Second Axial Age by bringing the sacred—banished to an imaginary heavenly realm in the wake of the First Axial Age—back to earth.

“Geering writes in simple and compelling language, conveying a complicated set of ideas in the most accessible way." —Sofia

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Read Lloyd Geering's article on How Did Jesus Become God and Why which appeared in Westar's membership magazine The Fourth R in 1998.