20 May 2004

Fan Predicts Flood of New Followers of the Trendy Belief System Kabbalah

IT worth looking at this not least because there are some links from the page to inform yourself a bit more about it. Storm in a teaup or major player on the NRM stage? Hard to tell. It still looks like a form of commercialised gnosticism to me. So what are the Gospel ways in to it and out of it?

We need to hear the 'religion-free' stuff. We need to note the daily-life focus. There's clearly a commercial angle; a kind of sacramentalism in which you can buy shortcuts [or superstition, depending on your pov] and there is the sense of attunement with the universe lurking in the background...

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A review of Common Threads

  Most of my Christian life, I've been what is usually labelled "an inclusivist". Lately I've been re-examining what that ...