“Honest to Goddess is a call to spiritual maturity. In the pattern of Sergius Bulgakov and the many faithful followers of Sophia, the author’s orthodoxy is strongly committed to the knightly championship of her. The Spirit and the Bride sing ‘Come’ and Geraint has answered their invitation.   The reconciliation of the Resurrection and its promise to all living things, not only to human believers, rings out with its Sophianic song of compassion within these pages – if we will only read, heed and understand.”

Caitlin Matthews – from the Foreword           

“A man of profound learning who has come to a personal understanding of the role of the feminine in spiritual belief and practice, Geraint’s theology is also a radical peace theology, a practical theology, with those who experience the divine Unity becoming reconcilers themselves, mediators of the divine Harmony. Treasure this book and make it widely known”

Thomas C. Daffern (philosopher)

 “I enjoyed this somewhat discursive book, part autobiography, part speculative theology, part meditative poetry. Throughout there shines a warm and vibrant personality, on fire with the love of Sophia, the Holy Wisdom of God. And just as the tendrils of ornamentation on a Celtic Cross wind and entwine widely and unexpectedly, so our Welsh author ranges from St John of the Cross to the Zodiac and from the gods and goddesses of the ancient world and of our own subconscious {not forgetting the local Green Man) to modern Russian theological writings. Read this as a seed book.”

Keith Denerley (Anglican vicar)

‘This book is essentially an attempt to revitalise the spiritual parts that traditional Christianity often fails to reach. Despite its mystical content it is a lucidly written book which the author has managed to infuse with his intellect as well as his enthusiasm. Those interested in the possibility of spiritual evolution within native Western tradition will welcome it.’

The Independent

“A theological student during the 1970s,  Geraint went through an intense personal initiation into Celtic Spirituality embracing both the Green Man and the Mystery of Wisdom that is Sophia. He is a true heir of the early Celtic Christian priesthood with its individual, independent and undogmatic character. It is “not the Christ we lack, but the knowledge and wisdom of the Christ, the Sophia of Christ, the Isis of the Christ,” said Rudolf  Steiner in 1920. Geraint’s book goes a long way towards filling that emptiness”.

New View, Book Reviews

“Fr Geraint I thank you for having written Honest to Goddess. I have found the inspiration therein a great spiritual comfort and encouragement”

(O.D-M)

‘I’ve come across charming spokespeople for this or that hierarchical religious movement rolling their eyes at my account of someone they considered ‘fringe’, ‘exotic’ or ‘extreme’. Yet these are the very people who, for me, embody the urgency, intensity and sacrifice of what I always imagined religious experience to be. I think for example of Geraint, trying to revive the mystic side of Christianity. What these people have in common is something that leadership of the established British religions has largely lost; a disregard for what society as a whole thinks of them. Today’s British religious hierarchs want too much to be liked. But the more frantic their efforts to make themselves heard by everyone, the less anyone will listen”.

James Meek, The Guardian   

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