A friend who survived a Near Death Experience recommended it as the only spiritual approach that fit with what she saw on the other side, namely: its message of Oneness, forgiveness and love. Respected New Testament scholar Craig Keener argues that it is time to rethink Hume's argument in light of the contemporary evidence available to us. Finding some elements of ACIM to be "severe and potentially dangerous distortions of Christian theology", he wrote that it is "a good example of a false revelation" [23] and that it has "become a spiritual menace to many". If you are drawn to it, please begin by reading the Clarification of Terms in the back of the book so that when you begin, you'll know how certain words are being used. that this is a big world, and that perhaps God really is at work in the healing business outside of our respective Western bubbles.

The secondary thesis is that supernatural explanations, while not suitable in every case, should be welcome on the scholarly table along with other explanations often discussed" (p. I want to give a brief overview and review of the book and, along with that overview, give some further thoughts and reflections about the topic of miracles in the modern world.

His goal is to destroy David Humes idea that miracles can never happen based on a vast volume of empirical data. Therefore, if naturalism were true, there would be no way of knowing it, or anything else not the direct result of a physical cause. They are physical signs that testify that there is more to reality that just the natural world, and that in Christ, the great physician, God is in the business of bringing healing to His creation. I applaud and thank you for digging into a topic that is not easy speak to or understand in our polarised North American Christian faith community. The copyright and trademarks, which had been held by two foundations, were revoked in 2004 [6] after lengthy litigation because the earliest versions had been circulated without a copyright notice.

The proven expert on German art of the late medieval and early modern periods worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and was Andrew W. And those rare instances where she outclasses the other members of this cast, it is because she has a natural gift, a talent, which none other possess. In "'Knowledge is Truth': A Course in Miracles as Neo-Gnostic Scripture" in Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, Simon J.The Court of Miracles had been on my nightstand (and kitchen table, coffee table, favourite chair and bottom of my bag) for a while, so I needed little more excuse to finish it. Whether we like to admit it or not, many Christians in the West are effectively atheistic and secular when it comes to the topic of the supernatural actually at work in the world. Drawing on claims from a range of global cultures and taking a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, Keener suggests that many miracle accounts throughout history and from contemporary times are best explained as genuine divine acts, lending credence to the biblical miracle reports. They invited members of the community to a church potluck, but everyone except Karen Schmidgall forgot to bring food.

Excellent new book (2 volumes), packed with meticulous scholarship, examining the documentary evidence for both early and more recent miracle reports - together with a discussion of a variety of reactions to such material. There were locusts in Poland, fiery symbols above Lisbon, and an epic bizarre creature in Rome (part donkey, part lizard with a human face on its butt). The degree of internal logical consistency is amazing, creating a framework that at times delivers thoroughly mindblowing content. The writing rivals Shakespeare in its beauty, The language is expressed in Christian terminology, but this is a universal course, which offers tools, both theoretical and practical, to undo fear, guilt, anger, denial and dis-ease, and thus reveal the Inner Light in us all. A Course in Miracles is said to have been channeled from a discarnate entity perceived as Jesus but never explicitly named as such in the ensuing text.Supernaturalists believe that interruptions or interferences can take place in this system of our Universe from some other system outside it. The result is a book that is important not only for the historical study of Jesus and the New Testament but also for our understanding of our contemporary world beyond the boundaries of our social location and its worldview. Lewis uses the incarnation as an example: if Christian concepts of a creator and sin are accepted, such an event may not seem quite so unreasonable as first supposed. By seeing our essential unity with all other people–the shared innocence of brothers and sisters–we learn that forgiveness is the only sane response to any offence, which is merely a cry for help. Using his characteristic lucidity and wit to develop his argument, Lewis challenges the rationalists, agnostics and deists on their own grounds and makes out an impressive case for the irrationality of their assumptions.

And the miracle is that it succeeds in demonstrating this in such brilliance and radiance of love that all your previous beliefs about the "real-ness" of conflict and pain are demolished.

Olav Hammer locates A Course in Miracles in the tradition of channeled works from those of Madam Blavatsky through to the works of Rudolf Steiner [15] and notes the close parallels between Christian Science and the teachings of the Course. With gentle humour, and surprising twists and turns, this is just the book we need in these difficult times.