Unmasking the New Age

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This could be one of the most significant Christian books of the decade. In a nonsensational way, this book reveals the incredible intrusion of New Age thinking into every facet of our culture."- Ronald Enroth, author of What Is a Cult? and Youth, Brainwashing and the Extremist Cults. What is the New Age movement? Is it a conspiracy? What can Christians do about it? In the last ten years the New Age has shifted out of the counterculture into the mainstream of society. Today its effects are felt in almost every aspect of life-medicine, politics, science, psychology and even religion. ¦ Fortune 500 corporations routinely send their managers to New Age seminars to expand their minds and increase productivity. ¦ Entertainer Shirley MacLaine has written two best-selling books that chronicle her conversion to the New Age. ¦ Doctors and therapists increasingly employ healing techniques that are based on pantheistic principles. ¦ Even advertisers on radio and television, in tune with New... Tovább

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This could be one of the most significant Christian books of the decade. In a nonsensational way, this book reveals the incredible intrusion of New Age thinking into every facet of our culture."- Ronald Enroth, author of What Is a Cult? and Youth, Brainwashing and the Extremist Cults. What is the New Age movement? Is it a conspiracy? What can Christians do about it? In the last ten years the New Age has shifted out of the counterculture into the mainstream of society. Today its effects are felt in almost every aspect of life-medicine, politics, science, psychology and even religion. ¦ Fortune 500 corporations routinely send their managers to New Age seminars to expand their minds and increase productivity. ¦ Entertainer Shirley MacLaine has written two best-selling books that chronicle her conversion to the New Age. ¦ Doctors and therapists increasingly employ healing techniques that are based on pantheistic principles. ¦ Even advertisers on radio and television, in tune with New Age ideas, are teliing us that we have unlimited potential. Douglas Groothuis explains how the New Age combines Eastern mysticism with Western optimism and why it has become so popular. His thorough, biblical analysis helps Christians know how to respond to this aggressive movement. "An analysis that is sober, comprehensive and penetrating."-Walter Martin, president of Christian Research Institute "In this perceptive and well-researched book Groothuis helps Christians become more alert and discerning without becoming alarmist."--from the foreword by Gordon Lewis, professor at Denver Seminary Douglas R. Groothuis (M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a research associate with Probe Ministries in Seattle, Washington, where he gives lectures and workshops on the New Age Movement. He is alsó the author of the booklet The New Age Movement and of numerous articles appearing in Eternity, Moody Monthly and other periodicals. Vissza