Willis Harman and Christianity Today
Christianity Today magazine was launched by neo-evangelical leaders in the mid-1950s who needed an organ that would “defend the evangelical faith at the intellectual level.” Billy Graham was instrumental in this endeavor. Harold J. Ockenga, in his Foreward to The Battle for the Bible by Harold Lindsell (Zondervan, 1976) explained…
Willis Harman and Marketplace Ministry
There were long-term repercussions when the evangelical Consultation of 1979 invited Theosophist Willis Harman to speak on the topic of “A Utopian Perspective on the Future” without opposition. Twenty-six years later evangelicalism bears signs of his influence. This is most evident in the rise of marketplace ministries. Few realize that…
Evangelicals Embrace New Future
Herescope blog has been highlighting a 1979 Consultation of leading evangelicals for the past few weeks. This “Continuing Consultation on Future Evangelical Concerns” was summarized in a book of “Addresses, Responses, and Scenarios” entitled An Evangelical Agenda: 1984 and beyond. The Consultation was sponsored by the Billy Graham Center at…
Leonard Sweet & Willis Harman: “Spiritual Sciences”
Willis W. Harman is quoted favorably in neoevangelical Leonard I. Sweet’s online book, Quantum Spirituality: A Postmodern Apologetic: “New Lights must catch the waves of a spiritual Gulf Stream taking them into unknown regions of what Nobel laureate/philosopher/London School of Economics professor Karl Popper and electrical engineer/Stanford University professor Willis…
Yoga and the Harman’s Psychic “Science”
Christian Research Service (CRS) prepared a fact sheet today about the introduction of Yoga into a Southern Baptist Church (9/28/05). Yet at the same time the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has provided materials that are in total opposition to the New Age, yoga and yoga techniques. One such SBC position…
Willis Harman Introduces Psychic “Science” to Evangelical Leaders
In his address on “A Utopian Perspective on the Future” to the 1979 Consultation with leading evangelicals, Willis Harman promoted a new “paradigm-shaking” science. He shifted the boundaries of rational objective science. His science included not only the humanistic “sciences” of psychology and sociology but also the psychic. In his…
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Willis Harman and Metanoia
Metanoia is a favorite word of the Theosophists. New Age leader Barbara Marx Hubbard used the term, too — in the same manner that Willis Harman and Leonard Sweet used it (see previous post), only with a twist. Her use of the word has to do with creating an alternative…
Leonard Sweet & Willis Harmon — Metanoia/Transformation
In 1991 Leonard I. Sweet, a renouned neoevangelial leader, re-defined the Greek word metanoia in his book Quantum Spirituality: A Postmodern Apologetic (posted on-line at http://www.leonardsweet.com/Quantum/index.asp). He wrote: “Metanoia can mean, literally, ‘after thought.’ What metanoia does is turn our minds after the mind of God, transform our consciousness so…
Willis Harman speaks to evangelicals virtually unopposed
Willis Harman, taught 1979 Consultation participants about his new psychic “science.” Urging them to adopt this new paradigm, he said: “Science will produce the knowledge we need. Modern society has developed science and technology that enable it to accomplish feats which other societies could only dream about. Yet it is…