Part.Chapter.Topic.Paragraph

 1 Fwd        | Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.~These reflections
 2 Fwd        |        movement differs from the Christian faith. This study invites
 3 Fwd        |       Age in comparison with the Christian message. Some suggestions
 4 1          |        thinkers in opposition to Christian faith. What is indeed required
 5 1.1        |    Pisces – known to them as the Christian age – is drawing to a close.
 6 1.1        |          not consistent with the Christian message. So this seems to
 7 1.1        |          right moment to offer a Christian assessment of New Age thinking
 8 1.1        |   identity.(1) Some say that the Christian religion is patriarchal
 9 1.1        |          differences between the Christian tradition and much of what
10 1.2        |        not all that is labelled “Christian” or “Catholic” can be trusted
11 1.3        |         indifference towards the Christian faith.~Furthermore, there
12 1.3        |          the ancient world, both Christian and pagan.~ ~
13 1.4        |          to do so run counter to Christian revelation. In Western culture
14 1.4        |        often denied.~An adequate Christian discernment of New Age thought
15 1.4        |          all that is essentially Christian”.( 6) An example of this
16 1.4        |     doctrine and the life of the Christian faith.~ ~
17 1.5        |  understanding of the content of Christian faith is weak, some mistakenly
18 1.5        |         mistakenly hold that the Christian religion does not inspire
19 1.5        |       challenge. People feel the Christian religion no longer offers
20 2          |        are inconsistent with the Christian revelation.~This is a pastoral
21 2          |   difficult to reconcile it with Christian doctrine and spirituality.~
22 2          |      discernment in the light of Christian faith. The purpose of this
23 2          |        that they can then make a Christian evaluation of the elements
24 2.1        |      practices, Cabbalism, early Christian gnosticism, Sufism, the
25 2.1        |         not a return to orthodox Christian doctrines and creeds. The
26 2.1   (21) |          journal of the Berkeley Christian Coalition puts it this way: “
27 2.3.1      |         time of crisis~“Both the Christian tradition and the secular
28 2.3   (31) |        Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation (Orationis Formas),
29 2.3.2      |     light on many aspects of the Christian faith, particularly on the
30 2.3   (34) |      quote passages dealing with Christian mystics, the liturgy and
31 2.3.4.1    |     therapies (as opposed to the Christian view of co-operation with
32 2.5   (50) |       discussed below in § 3.4, “Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism”. ~
33 3          |                    3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY~
34 3.2        |      this sense, while it is not Christian, New Age spirituality is
35 3.3        |          in New Age thought: the Christian conception of God is one
36 3.3        |          within us.~According to Christian belief, Jesus Christ is
37 3.4        |                             3.4. Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism~
38 3.4        |     levels of comparison between Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism.
39 3.4        |         The essential element in Christian faith, however, is God's
40 3.4        |       them or do without them. A Christian's “method of getting closer
41 3.4        |     Gospel. The heart of genuine Christian mysticism is not technique:
42 3.4        | presumption and pretentiousness. Christian prayer is not an exercise
43 3.5   (63) |           You are Gods. Orthodox Christian Theosis and Deification
44 3.5        |      Himself”. Here theosis, the Christian understanding of divinisation,
45 4          |                    4 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN CONTRAST~It is
46 4          |        From the point of view of Christian faith, it is not possible
47 4          |         the revealed contents of Christian faith – it cannot be viewed
48 4          | religiosity on the same level as Christian faith, making the difference
49 4          |      thought and practice from a Christian standpoint. “New Age” refers
50 4          |      rather diffuse, whereas the Christian concept is a very clear
51 4          |          very different from the Christian understanding of God as
52 4          |           or avatars, whereas in Christian tradition He is the Son
53 4          |    esoteric essence.(68) ~In the Christian Tradition Jesus Christ is
54 4          |          within themselves. ~The Christian approach grows out of the
55 4          |     Jesus Christ is presented in Christian teaching as “The Way, the
56 4          |         heart they are still not Christian prayer. Even when it is
57 4          |        the double orientation of Christian prayer, which involves introspection
58 4          |     being a merely human effort, Christian mysticism is essentially
59 4          |       the 'you' of God”.(76)“The Christian, even when he is alone and
60 4          |          full potential. ~In the Christian perspective “only the light
61 4          |          irreconcilable with the Christian belief that a human person
62 4          |        other (person). A genuine Christian searches for unity in the
63 5          |         is at the heart of every Christian action, and every Christian
64 5          |      Christian action, and every Christian message. So the Church constantly
65 6.1        |        replace the predominantly Christian Age of Pisces. New Age thinkers
66 6.1        |        thrives on confusion. The Christian tradition has always valued
67 6.1        |        are incompatible with the Christian faith: these movements “
68 6.2        |       reflect or conflict with a Christian vision of God, the human
69 6.2        |      effective in promoting true Christian spirituality. Catholic cultural
70 6.2        |         for the marks of genuine Christian spirituality, and to be
71 6.2        |   intention of a “prayer group”. Christian prayer and the God of Jesus
72 6.2        |    hidden depths of the self.  ~*Christian groups which promote care
73 6.2        |      perhaps a necessary mark of Christian stewardship of creation,
74 6.2        |      reliable information on the Christian understanding of time and
75 6.2        |        sound presentation of the Christian message. We can be proud
76 6.2        |         holiness in the lives of Christian men and women past and present.
77 6.2        |        making sense of the whole Christian message.  ~*Perhaps the
78 6.2        |        most of the riches of the Christian spiritual heritage. The
79 6.2        |       would reveal the riches of Christian tradition, and perhaps clarify
80 7.2        |         the first century of the christian era.(100) Alexandrian hermeticism
81 7.3   (106)|                 Cf. John Saliba, Christian Responses to the New Age
82 8          |    Bishops on Certain Aspects of Christian Meditation (Orationis Formas),
83 8          |       Washington (USCC) 1995. ~ ~Christian studies ~Raúl Berzosa Martinez,
84 8          |     Servant) 1992. ~John Saliba, Christian Responses to the New Age