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The New Age movement and the biblical worldview:

conflict and dialogue
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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998 - Religion - 614 pages
The postmodern claim that secular science, materialism, and traditional Christianity are defunct has produced a worldview crisis for contemporary society. Into the void has stepped the New Age movement to offer a widely held and growing alternative. According to John Newport, the influence of New Age beliefs on our culture -- and even the dilution of Christianity itself -- demands that they be scrutinized in the light of the Bible.

In this urgently needed work, Newport delivers a comprehensive presentation of the New Age movement and the impact of its beliefs on contemporary culture and Christianity, while also offering an effective, biblical antidote for today's worldview crisis. Newport first surveys the historical development of the New Age worldview, from ancient times through important tendencies in nineteenth-century America to its recent Far Eastern influences. He then explores eleven key areas of the New Age worldview and contrasts each area of belief with the traditional biblical worldview.

Thoroughly discussed are New Age consciousness, spiritism and channeling, magic and witchcraft, neopaganism and Satanism, New Age ecology, the New Age movement's influence on personal healthcare, New Age teachings on business and prosperity consciousness, New Age perspectives on education and science, and much more. Throughout, Newport maintains a fair dialogue with his subject matter while showing why this dialogue ought to bring renewed commitment to what the traditional biblical worldview has to say about each of these areas.

  

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Rather good actually, for a Christian book. It doesn't misrepresent Paganism it just presents the Christian view of it. Read full review

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Contents

The New Age Movement
1
Tracing the Origins of New Age
19
A Worldview Crisis
40
Consciousness and Radical Transformation
53
Spiritism and Channeling vs Biblical Revelation and Prophecy
145
Magic Witchcraft Neopaganism and the Goddess Movement
212
Ecology and the New Age
274
Health and the New Age Worldview
324
Education
418
Science
446
The Arts
470
The Meaning of History
499
Modern Satanism and Black Magic
533
Critique and Transformation
596
Index
608
Copyright

The World of Business
382

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TitleThe New Age movement and the biblical worldview: conflict and dialogue
AuthorJohn P. Newport
PublisherWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1998
ISBN0802844308, 9780802844309
Length614 pages
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