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Jesus Christ the bearer of the water of life

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  • 1. WHAT SORT OF REFLECTION?
    • 1.1. Why now?
  1: )Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement. The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Modernity,[...]
  2: )Cf. P. Heelas, op. cit., p. 164f. 
  3: )Cf. P. Heelas, op. cit., p. 173. 
  4: )Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Dominum et vivificantem (18 May 1986), 53. 



  • 1. WHAT SORT OF REFLECTION?
    • 1.4. The New Age and Catholic Faith
  5: )Cf. Gilbert Markus o.p., “Celtic Schmeltic”, (1) in Spirituality, vol. 4, November-December 1998, [...]
  6: )John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, (Knopf) 1994, 90. 



  • 1. WHAT SORT OF REFLECTION?
    • 1.5. A positive challenge
  7: )Cf. particularly Massimo Introvigne, New Age & Next Age, Casale Monferrato (Piemme) 2000. 
  8: )M. Introvigne, op. cit., p. 267. 



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
  9: )Cf. Michel Lacroix, L'Ideologia della New Age, Milano (il Saggiatore) 1998, p. 86. The word “sect[...]
  10: )Cf. Wouter J. Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture. Esotericism in the Mirror of Secu[...]
  11: )Cf. Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, The Future of Religion. Secularisation, Revival and [...]
  12: )Cf. M. Lacroix, op. cit., p. 8. 
  13: )The Swiss “Theologie für Laien” course entitled Faszination Esoterik puts this clearly. Cf. “Kurs[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.1. What is new about New Age?
  14: )The term was already in use in the title of The New Age Magazine, which was being published by th[...]
  15: )In late 1977, Marilyn Ferguson sent a questionnaire to 210 “persons engaged in social transformat[...]
  16: )W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., p. 520. 
  17: )Irish Theological Commission, A New Age of the Spirit? A Catholic Response to the New Age Phenome[...]
  18: )Cf. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chicago (University of Chicago Press), 1970, p. 175.[...]
  19: )Cf. Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi, Il Cristo del New Age. Indagine critica, Vatican City (Libreria [...]
  20: )It is worth recalling the lyrics of this song, which quickly imprinted themselves on to the minds [...]
  21: )P. Heelas, op. cit., p. 1f. The August 1978 journal of the Berkeley Christian Coalition puts it th[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.2. What does the New Age claim to offer?
      • 2.2.1. Enchantment: There Must be an Angel
  22: )Cf. Chris Griscom, Ecstasy is a New Frequency: Teachings of the Light Institute, New York (Simon &[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.2. What does the New Age claim to offer?
      • 2.2.2. Harmony and Understanding: Good Vibrations
  23: )See the Glossary of New Age terms, §7.2 above.
  24: )Cf. W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., chapter 15 (“The Mirror of Secular Thought”). The system of corres[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.2. What does the New Age claim to offer?
      • 2.2.3. Health: Golden living
  25: )W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., pp. 54-55. 
  26: )Cf. Reinhard Hümmel, “Reinkarnation”, in Hans Gasper, Joachim Müller, Friederike Valentin (eds.),[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.3. The fundamental principles of New Age thinking
      • 2.3.1. A global response in a time of crisis
  27: )Michael Fuss, “New Age and Europe – A Challenge for Theology”, in Mission Studies Vol. VIII-2, 16,[...]
  28: )Ibid., loc. cit. 
  29: )Ibid.,p. 193. 
  30: )Ibid.,p. 199. 
  31: )Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspe[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.3. The fundamental principles of New Age thinking
      • 2.3.2. The essential matrix of New Age thinking
  32: )W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., p. 448f. The objectives are quoted from the final (1896) version, earl[...]
  33: )W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., p. 513. 
  34: )Thomas M. King s.j., “Jung and Catholic Spirituality”, in America, 3 April 1999, p. 14. The author[...]
  35: )Cf. W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., p. 501f. 
  36: )Carl Gustav Jung, Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, quoted in Hanegraaff, op. cit., p. 503. 



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.3. The fundamental principles of New Age thinking
      • 2.3.4. What does New Age say about...
        • 2.3.4.1. ...the human person?
  37: )On this point cf. Michel Schooyans, L'Évangile face au désordre mondial, with a preface by Cardin[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.3. The fundamental principles of New Age thinking
      • 2.3.4. What does New Age say about...
        • 2.3.4.3. ...the world?
  38: )Quoted in the Maranatha Community's The True and the False New Age. Introductory Ecumenical Notes,[...]
  39: )Michel Lacroix, L'Ideologia della New Age, Milano (il Saggiatore) 1998, p. 84f. 
  40: )Cf. the section on David Spangler's ideas in Actualité des religions nº 8, septembre 1999, p. 43.[...]
  41: )M. Ferguson, op. cit., p. 407. 
  42: )Ibid.,p. 411. 



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.4. “Inhabitants of myth rather than history”?: New Age and culture
  43: )“To be an American... is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than inherit one. We have always b[...]
  44: )Cf. P. Heelas, op. cit., p. 173f. 
  45: )David Spangler, The New Age, Issaquah (Mornington Press) 1988, p. 14. 
  46: )P. Heelas, op. cit., p. 168. 
  47: )See the Preface to Michel Schooyans, L'Évangile face au désordre mondial, op. cit. This quotation[...]



  • 2. NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY: AN OVERVIEW
    • 2.5. Why has New Age grown so rapidly and spread so effectively?
  48: )Cf. Our Creative Diversity. Report of the World Commission on Culture and Development, Paris (UNE[...]
  49: )Cf. Christoph Bochinger, “New Age” und moderne Religion: Religionswissenschaftliche Untersuchungen[...]
  50: )The shortcomings of techniques which are not yet prayer are discussed below in § 3.4, “Christian [...]



  • 3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
    • 3.1. New Age as spirituality
  51: )Cf. Carlo Maccari, “La 'mistica cosmica' del New Age”, in Religioni e Sette nel Mondo 1996/2.  [...]
  52: )Jean Vernette, “L'avventura spirituale dei figli dell'Acquario”, in Religioni e Sette nel Mondo 1[...]
  53: )J. Vernette, loc. cit. 
  54: )Cf. J. Gordon Melton, New Age Encyclopedia, Detroit (Gale Research) 1990, pp. xiii-xiv. 



  • 3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
    • 3.2. Spiritual narcissism?
  55: )David Spangler, The Rebirth of the Sacred, London (Gateway Books) 1984, p. 78f. 
  56: )David Spangler, The New Age, op. cit., p. 13f. 



  • 3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
    • 3.3. The Cosmic Christ
  57: )John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Tertio Millennio Adveniente (10 November 1994), 9. 
  58: )Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Glob[...]



  • 3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
    • 3.4. Christian mysticism and New Age mysticism
  59: )Cf. the document issued by the Argentine Bishops' Conference Committee for Culture: Frente a una [...]
  60: )Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Orationis Formas, 23. 
  61: )Ibid.,3. See the sections on meditation and contemplative prayer in the Catechism of the Catholic [...]
  62: )Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Orationis Formas, 13. 



  • 3 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
    • 3.5. The “god within“ and “theosis”
  63: )Cf. Brendan Pelphrey, “I said, You are Gods. Orthodox Christian Theosis and Deification in the Ne[...]
  64: )Adrian Smith, God and the Aquarian Age. The new era of the Kingdom, Great Wakering (McCrimmons) 1[...]



  • 4 NEW AGE AND CHRISTIAN FAITH IN CONTRAST
  65: )Cf. Benjamin Creme, The Reappearance of Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, London (Tara Press) 1979[...]
  66: )Cf. Jean Vernette, Le New Age, Paris (P.U.F.) 1992 (Collection Encyclopédique Que sais-je?), p. 1[...]
  67: )Catechism of the Catholic Church, 52. 
  68: )Cf. Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi, Il Cristo del New Age. Indagine Critica, Vatican City (Libreria Ed[...]
  69: )The Nicene Creed. 
  70: )Michel Lacroix, L'Ideologia della New Age, Milano (Il Saggiatore) 1998, p. 74. 
  71: )Ibid., p. 68. 
  72: )Edwin Schur, The Awareness Trap. Self-Absorption instead of Social Change, New York (McGraw Hill) [...]
  73: )Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, §§ 355-383. 
  74: )Cf. Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement. The Celebration of the Self and the Sacralization of Moder[...]
  75: )A Catholic Response to the New Age Phenomenon, Irish Theological Commission 1994, chapter 3. 
  76: )Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Orationis Formas, 3. 
  77: )Ibid.,7. 
  78: )William Bloom, The New Age. An Anthology of Essential Writings, London (Rider) 1991, p. xvi. 
  79: )Catechism of the Catholic Church, § 387. 
  80: )Ibid., § 1849. 
  81: )Ibid., § 1850. 
  82: )John Paul II, Apostolic Letter on human suffering “Salvifici doloris” (11 February 1984), 19. 
  83: )Cf. David Spangler, The New Age, op. cit., p. 28. 
  84: )Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptoris Missio (7 December 1990), 6, 28, and the Declara[...]
  85: )Cf. R. Rhodes, The Counterfeit Christ of the New Age Movement, Grand Rapids (Baker) 1990, p. 129.[...]



  • 5 JESUS CHRIST OFFERS US THE WATER OF LIFE
  86: )Helen Bergin o.p., “Living One's Truth”, in The Furrow, January 2000, p. 12. 
  87: )Ibid.,p. 15. 



  • 6 POINTS TO NOTE
    • 6.1. Guidance and sound formation are needed
  88: )Cf. P. Heelas, op. cit., p. 138. 
  89: )Elliot Miller, A Crash Course in the New Age, Eastbourne (Monarch) 1989, p. 122. For documentatio[...]
  90: )Cf. John Paul II, Encyclical letter Fides et Ratio (14 September 1998), 36-48. 
  91: )Cf. John Paul II, Address to the United States Bishops of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska on t[...]



  • 6 POINTS TO NOTE
    • 6.2. Practical steps
  92: )Cf. John Paul II, Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa (14 September 1995), 103. [...]
  93: )Cf. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Orationis Formas, and § 3 above. 
  94: )This is one area where lack of information can allow those responsible for education to be misled [...]



  • 7 APPENDIX
    • 7.2. A Select Glossary
  95: )Cf. J. Badewien, Antroposofia, in H. Waldenfels (ed.) Nuovo Dizionario delle Religioni, Cinisello [...]
  96: )Cf. Raúl Berzosa Martinez, Nueva Era y Cristianismo, Madrid (BAC) 1995, 214. 
  97: )Helen Palmer, The Enneagram, New York (Harper-Row) 1989. 
  98: )Cf. document of the Argentine Episcopal Committee for Culture, op. cit. 
  99: )J. Gernet, in J.-P. Vernant et al., Divination et Rationalité, Paris (Seuil) 1974, p. 55. 
  100: )Cf. Susan Greenwood, “Gender and Power in Magical Practices”, in Steven Sutcliffe and Marion Bowma[...]
  101: )Cf. M. Fuss, op. cit., 198-199. 
  102: )For a brief but clear treatment of the Human Potential Movement, see Elizabeth Puttick, “Personal [...]
  103: )Cf. C. Maccari, La “New Age” di fronte alla fede cristiana, Leumann-Torino (LDC) 1994, 168. 
  104: )Cf. W.J. Hanegraaff, op. cit., 283-290. 
  105: )On this last, very delicate, point, see Eckhard Türk's article “Neonazismus” in Hans Gasper, Joac[...]



  • 7 APPENDIX
    • 7.3. Key New Age places
  106: )Cf. John Saliba, Christian Responses to the New Age Movement. A Critical Assessment, London, (Geof[...]
  107: )Cf. M. Fuss, op. cit., 195-196.



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