Sir Lloyd George Geering ONZ GNZM CBE (born 26 February 1918) is a New Zealand theologian who faced charges of heresy in 1967 for teaching that the Bible's record of Jesus' death and resurrection is not true.

[3][4] He was educated at Otago Boys' High School from 1931 to 1935, where he was dux in his final year and vice-captain of the hockey 1st XI.

[3] He applied to study for the ministry at Knox College and was accepted, but told to finish his Bachelor of Arts degree first.

[4] Geering was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship by the University of Otago in 1939[4] and graduated Bachelor of Arts with first-class honours in 1940.

After completing his BA(Hons), he entered Knox College as a theological student in 1940, and was exempted from military service in World War II.

I took my Christian convictions so seriously that I couldn’t reconcile them with being a soldier.On 22 May 1943, Geering married Nancy Marie McKenzie at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Timaru.

[13] Geering is a member of the Jesus Seminar and a participant in the Living the Questions programme, an alternative to the evangelical Alpha course, which he calls “dangerous indoctrination” growing among mainstream churches.

In 1967, Geering gained a high-profile when he was charged with "doctrinal error" and "disturbing the peace and unity of the (Presbyterian) church".

[19] In 2021, Geering joined the group Intergenerational Climate Ambassadors, established in 2020 by scientist Jim Salinger and Sophie Handford, a Kāpiti Coast district councillor.

We now know that we are in the hands of natural forces in the world, and because of what humans have done to the earth, they have produced a situation where the temperature's going up all the time – and it will reach a limit which we can't survive.