The author recounts how, through his deprogramming experience, he came to recognise the mind-control techniques which had lured him, and by which he subsequently lured others, into the Unification Church.
New religious movements and the churches : report and papers of a consultation sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches, Free University, Amsterdam, September 1986
"Edited by Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar".
"The new religious movements 'may be constructive or destructive, can lead to a new freedom or new enslavement, can depersonalize individuals or reveal their fuller human potential, can depend on religious faith or on new rituals equivalent to magic and the occult, can reclaim the drug addict and encourage virtuous lives or exhibit immoral and demonic features'. But if we are to follow the way of Jesus, that of 'barrier-breaking and not barrier-building', these movements must challenge us to dialogue -- a dialogue that does not exclude criticism. These and related issues were discussed at a consultation jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. The book brings together the papers presented at the consultation and its findings and recommendations". -- back cover.
Contents: Preface / Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar -- Introduction / J. Paul Rajashekar -- Part I: Understanding New Religious Movements -- A Global Phenomenon / Harold Turner -- Contemporary New Religions in the West / Reinhart Hummel -- Contemporary New Religious Situation in Japan / Shinji Kanai -- Part II: Some Aspects of New Religious Movements -- The World-view/Cosmology of the New Religious Movements / Johannes Aagaard -- The Emergence of a New Religosity in the Western World / Jean-Francois Mayer -- Bringing Them In: Some Observations on Methods of Recruitment Employed by New Religious Movements / Eileen Barker -- A Response / Rudiger Hauth -- Religious Liberty and Socio-political Values: Legal Threats to Conversion in the United States / Dean M. Kelley -- Part III: Responding to New Religious Movements -- Churches' Response to Innovative Religious Movements of the Past / Reender Kranenborg -- A Response / Friday M. Mbon -- Response of the Churches to New Religious Movements: a Report from North America / Diana L. Eck -- Dialogue with New Religious Movements ? / Kenneth Cracknell -- Appendices -- Summary Statement and Recommendations -- Sects or New Religious Movements: Pastoral Challenge -- List of Participants -- Contributors.
OTCH Note: Participants include Canadian Anglican the Rev. James A.J. Cowan (p. [198]).
New religious movements and the churches : report and papers of a consultation sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation and the World Council of Churches, Free University, Amsterdam, September 1986
"Edited by Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar".
"The new religious movements 'may be constructive or destructive, can lead to a new freedom or new enslavement, can depersonalize individuals or reveal their fuller human potential, can depend on religious faith or on new rituals equivalent to magic and the occult, can reclaim the drug addict and encourage virtuous lives or exhibit immoral and demonic features'. But if we are to follow the way of Jesus, that of 'barrier-breaking and not barrier-building', these movements must challenge us to dialogue -- a dialogue that does not exclude criticism. These and related issues were discussed at a consultation jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches and the Lutheran World Federation. The book brings together the papers presented at the consultation and its findings and recommendations". -- back cover.
Contents: Preface / Allan R. Brockway and J. Paul Rajashekar -- Introduction / J. Paul Rajashekar -- Part I: Understanding New Religious Movements -- A Global Phenomenon / Harold Turner -- Contemporary New Religions in the West / Reinhart Hummel -- Contemporary New Religious Situation in Japan / Shinji Kanai -- Part II: Some Aspects of New Religious Movements -- The World-view/Cosmology of the New Religious Movements / Johannes Aagaard -- The Emergence of a New Religosity in the Western World / Jean-Francois Mayer -- Bringing Them In: Some Observations on Methods of Recruitment Employed by New Religious Movements / Eileen Barker -- A Response / Rudiger Hauth -- Religious Liberty and Socio-political Values: Legal Threats to Conversion in the United States / Dean M. Kelley -- Part III: Responding to New Religious Movements -- Churches' Response to Innovative Religious Movements of the Past / Reender Kranenborg -- A Response / Friday M. Mbon -- Response of the Churches to New Religious Movements: a Report from North America / Diana L. Eck -- Dialogue with New Religious Movements ? / Kenneth Cracknell -- Appendices -- Summary Statement and Recommendations -- Sects or New Religious Movements: Pastoral Challenge -- List of Participants -- Contributors.
OTCH Note: Participants include Canadian Anglican the Rev. James A.J. Cowan (p. [198]).
"First published in Great Britain in 1991 by Bellew Publishing Company Limited .. London". -- verso of t.-p.
"This volume of sermons is published in honour of the Archbishop of Canterbury [Robert Runcie] on his retirement". -- back cover.
61 sermons by a variety of individuals.
Contents divided into three parts: Part I: One God -- Part II: One Church -- Part III: One World.
Contents: Foreword / Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone -- Preface / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Part I: One God -- God's Love / Desmond Tutu -- Share Your Bread / Frances Dominica -- On Really Believing in God / David Jenkins -- Breadth and Sanity / John Habgood -- The God Within / Don Cupitt -- The Hinge of Faith / Angela Tilby -- The Resolution of Fear / Donald Soper -- The Beauty of God / Richard Harries -- Puzzling Reflections of Truth / Maurice Wiles -- The Wounded Surgeon and the Dying Nurse / Graham Leonard -- Failing to Satisfy the Examiners / Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok -- In the End, God / Nicholas Stacey -- The Touch of God / Rowan Williams -- Watch With Me / Cicely Saunders -- Artists and the Spirit / Alan Webster -- On Leaving / Anthony Phillips -- A Sense of Wonder / Kallistos Ware -- Justice, Human and Divine / Peter Baelz -- The Creative Vision / Ursula King -- Rethinking on Principle / Leslie Houlden -- Part II: One Church -- The Path of Unity / John Paul II -- A Pilgrim Church / John Simpson -- Continuity and Community / John Witheridge -- A Priest's Vocation / David Edwards -- The English Settlement / Enoch Powell -- Only Connect / Eric James -- A Strange Land / Owen Chadwick -- Ministry and Vision / Stuart Blanch -- Promise, Presence and Parousia / Michael Nazir-Ali -- A Gift of the Holy Spirit / Derek Worlock -- Becoming Free Men / Robert Hardy -- Guard the Deposit / Stephen Sykes -- On a Huge Hill / Michael Mayne -- Faithful Under Pressure / Michael Turnbull -- A Case for Christian Schools / Edward Norman -- Moses and Aaron / Christopher Lewis -- Listening to One Another / Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh -- Begotten from Above / Alec Graham -- A Deacon in the Church of God / Donald Coggan -- One Body, One Spirit / Mark Santer -- Part III: One World -- A Voice and Inspiration in the Land / Mary Whitehouse -- A Cry of Pain / David Sheppard -- Jewish Understanding of Interfaith Encounter / Immanuel Jakobovits -- Missionaries / Geoffrey Parrinder -- Christian Unity and Human Unity / Lesslie Newbigin -- The Conversion of Paul / Grace Jantzen -- Leadership and Crisis / Jonathan Sacks -- A Moonie Challenge to the Churches / Eileen Barker -- The Whole Armour of God / Hugh Montefiore -- Out of Tragedy / John Lawrence -- Can Jesus Draw Us Together ? / Marcus Braybrooke -- Religious Education / Mary Warnock -- Those who are Left Behind / Anthony Harvey -- Telling Tales / Julia Neuberger -- Academic Unity and Tolerance / David Say -- A Message for Monday Morning / Lionel Blue -- Great is Truth and Mighty / Edward Carpenter -- Suffering / Lord Longford -- The Sin of Pride / Jack Mahoney -- Advancing the Kingdom / George Carey -- List of Contributors.
"First published in Great Britain in 1991 by Bellew Publishing Company Limited .. London". -- verso of t.-p.
"This volume of sermons is published in honour of the Archbishop of Canterbury [Robert Runcie] on his retirement". -- back cover.
61 sermons by a variety of individuals.
Contents divided into three parts: Part I: One God -- Part II: One Church -- Part III: One World.
Contents: Foreword / Lord Hailsham of St. Marylebone -- Preface / Dan Cohn-Sherbok -- Part I: One God -- God's Love / Desmond Tutu -- Share Your Bread / Frances Dominica -- On Really Believing in God / David Jenkins -- Breadth and Sanity / John Habgood -- The God Within / Don Cupitt -- The Hinge of Faith / Angela Tilby -- The Resolution of Fear / Donald Soper -- The Beauty of God / Richard Harries -- Puzzling Reflections of Truth / Maurice Wiles -- The Wounded Surgeon and the Dying Nurse / Graham Leonard -- Failing to Satisfy the Examiners / Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok -- In the End, God / Nicholas Stacey -- The Touch of God / Rowan Williams -- Watch With Me / Cicely Saunders -- Artists and the Spirit / Alan Webster -- On Leaving / Anthony Phillips -- A Sense of Wonder / Kallistos Ware -- Justice, Human and Divine / Peter Baelz -- The Creative Vision / Ursula King -- Rethinking on Principle / Leslie Houlden -- Part II: One Church -- The Path of Unity / John Paul II -- A Pilgrim Church / John Simpson -- Continuity and Community / John Witheridge -- A Priest's Vocation / David Edwards -- The English Settlement / Enoch Powell -- Only Connect / Eric James -- A Strange Land / Owen Chadwick -- Ministry and Vision / Stuart Blanch -- Promise, Presence and Parousia / Michael Nazir-Ali -- A Gift of the Holy Spirit / Derek Worlock -- Becoming Free Men / Robert Hardy -- Guard the Deposit / Stephen Sykes -- On a Huge Hill / Michael Mayne -- Faithful Under Pressure / Michael Turnbull -- A Case for Christian Schools / Edward Norman -- Moses and Aaron / Christopher Lewis -- Listening to One Another / Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh -- Begotten from Above / Alec Graham -- A Deacon in the Church of God / Donald Coggan -- One Body, One Spirit / Mark Santer -- Part III: One World -- A Voice and Inspiration in the Land / Mary Whitehouse -- A Cry of Pain / David Sheppard -- Jewish Understanding of Interfaith Encounter / Immanuel Jakobovits -- Missionaries / Geoffrey Parrinder -- Christian Unity and Human Unity / Lesslie Newbigin -- The Conversion of Paul / Grace Jantzen -- Leadership and Crisis / Jonathan Sacks -- A Moonie Challenge to the Churches / Eileen Barker -- The Whole Armour of God / Hugh Montefiore -- Out of Tragedy / John Lawrence -- Can Jesus Draw Us Together ? / Marcus Braybrooke -- Religious Education / Mary Warnock -- Those who are Left Behind / Anthony Harvey -- Telling Tales / Julia Neuberger -- Academic Unity and Tolerance / David Say -- A Message for Monday Morning / Lionel Blue -- Great is Truth and Mighty / Edward Carpenter -- Suffering / Lord Longford -- The Sin of Pride / Jack Mahoney -- Advancing the Kingdom / George Carey -- List of Contributors.