![]() ![]() But how does one put their mind around such a project? I realized that I was reading an intelligent defense of pantheism, and that it deserved an Orthodox response. Walsch wrote his books as a “conversation,” as a personal dialog with God, in which he would receive compelling and comforting answers to specific questions, including assurances that there is no hell, that at the level of our souls, no one suffers, that in fact we are all One, all a part of God. For anyone interested in news from God, this is exciting work. Walsch claimed to be transcribing the word of God. ![]() I first read Conversations with God ten years ago, and was fascinated by Neale Walsch’s dialog in which he would ask questions and God would answer. Anthony Gabriel at the Antiochian House of Studies that “some of our ‘New Age’ thinkers are not unlike the pre-Socratic philosophers who could be brought into the church and sanctified.” The presumption that we can sanctify the “things of the world” with a correct or Orthodox Christian understanding freed me, I felt, to become more involved with the world and its various spiritual currents. As I was reading his books, I was surprised by a statement made by Fr. His approach is sweeping and fresh, and represents a sort of secular pantheism, which I think is a real and perhaps even dominant spirituality in North America. Over the course of the last few years, I have been impressed by the writings of Neale Donald Walsch in his “ Conversations with God” books. By Deacon Jeffrey Smith ( impetus for this program of study is love – love of a fresh way of looking at theology. ![]()
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