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Pontifical Council for Culture; Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
Jesus Christ the bearer of the water of life
A Christian reflection on the “New Age”

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• FOREWORD
• 1. WHAT SORT OF REFLECTION?
  • 1.1. Why now?
  • 1.2. Communications
  • 1.3. Cultural background
  • 1.4. The New Age and Catholic Faith
  • 1.5. A positive challenge
    
    
• 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
  • 2.1. What is new about New Age?
  • 2.2. What does the New Age claim to offer?
    • 2.2.1. Enchantment: There Must be an Angel
    • 2.2.2. Harmony and Understanding: Good Vibrations
    • 2.2.3. Health: Golden living
    • 2.2.4. Wholeness: A Magical Mystery Tour
      
      
  • 2.3. The fundamental principles of New Age thinking
    • 2.3.1. A global response in a time of crisis
    • 2.3.2. The essential matrix of New Age thinking
    • 2.3.3. Central themes of the New Age
    • 2.3.4. What does New Age say about...
      • 2.3.4.1. ...the human person?
      • 2.3.4.2. ...God?
      • 2.3.4.3. ...the world?
        
        
  • 2.4. “Inhabitants of myth rather than history”?: New Age and culture
  • 2.5. Why has New Age grown so rapidly and spread so effectively?
    
    
• 3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
  • 3.1. New Age as spirituality
  • 3.2. Spiritual narcissism?
  • 3.3. The Cosmic Christ
  • 3.4. Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism
  • 3.5. The “god within“ and “theosis”
    
    
• 4 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN CONTRAST
• 5 JESUS CHRIST OFFERS US THE WATER OF LIFE
• 6 POINTS TO NOTE
  • 6.1. Guidance and sound formation are needed
  • 6.2. Practical steps
    
    
• 7 APPENDIX
  • 7.1. Some brief formulations of New Age ideas
  • 7.2. A Select Glossary
  • 7.3. Key New Age places
    
    
• 8 RESOURCES
• 9 GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • 9.1. Some New Age books
  • 9.2. Historical, descriptive and analytical works

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