"A Course in Miracles" and Christianity: A Dialogue [BOOK]

AVAILABLE IN FOLLOWING FORMATSclick on an icon below          Paperback BookFirst Edition. 108 pages.      Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. and W. Norris Clarke, S.J., Ph.D.  The essential characteristic of A Course in Miracles that lies at the core of our differences is that it is a non-dualistic spirituality. Christianity, as Judaism before it, is a dualistic thought system in which God and the world, spirit and matter co-exist as separate states, both of which are real. Reality is thus seen to be a dimension of opposites—as with good and evil—in marked distinction from the Course's understanding of reality as being only perfect unity in which there are no opposites. (Adapted from "Summary and Conclusions")Many students of A Course in Miracles have been tempted to call it the "Third Testament," thereby expressing their belief that it represents the same basic theology of the Bible, although in a more "purified," i.e., less ego-dominated, or more spiritually evolved form. Kenneth