Missiological Reflection #41

“Christian” New Agers:  A Growing Phenomenon

(May 2008)

The Monthly Missiological Reflections (MMRs) are prepared by Dr. Gailyn Van Rheenen, Director of Mission Alive.  These reflections cover a wide range of practical missions issues and attempt to offer missiologically and theologically sound suggestions.  This MMR is a case study entitled  "Christian" New Agers:  A Growing Phenomena.  This reflection is a real-life story describing North American Christians who unconsciously absorb Eastern and animistic beliefs that lead them to perform practices that dethrone God as Lord (Missiological Reflection #41).

MMR Archive:

Case Study:  Translating God in Mongolia (MMR #40)

Spiritual Formation in Church Planting (MMR #39)

Contextualization and Syncretism (MMR #38)

Unspeakable Pain (MMR #37)

Dream the Dream . . . . again (MMR #36)

Church as “Place” or “Service” (MMR #35)

Contrasting Missional and Church Growth Perspectives (MMR #34)

Imagining Christ's Church in the City (MMR #33)

Modernity Sweeps Africa (MMR #32)

A Change of Life (MMR #31)

Encountering Religious Pluralism (MMR #30)

Christian Prayer and Eastern Meditation (MMR #29)

A Strange New A Theology of Power (MMR #28)

Voice: Who are Missional Leaders? (MMR #27)

Missional Helix:  Example of Church Planting (MMR #26)

The Missional Helix (MMR #25)

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Mongolian Lectures on Animism, Worldview, The Spiritual World, and Syncretism

Recently I gave five presentations at a three-day symposium in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, entitled Distinctively Christian, Distinctly Mongol, "a symposium on establishing a pure church while preserving authentic cultural identity." The text of these lectures can now be accessed in English and will eventually also be available in Korean and Mongolian.

Worldview and Syncretism
Defining an Animistic Worldview
Living in the Heavenly Realms
Proclaiming the Kingdom of God among Animists and Secularists
Conversion: Turning from Darkness to Light
 

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