Caleb Wait, Sola Media’s Director of Content, interviews Michael Horton on his new book, “Shaman and Sage: The Roots of “Spiritual but Not Religious” in Antiquity. Many preachers today appeal to headlines that announce a surge in spirituality as if this news offers the church encouragement. We tend to think of modern secular culture as hostile to spirituality—an atheistic world of soulless materialism. So if modern people now want spirituality, Christians often think, that must mean people will find their way toward Christianity. This thesis, among many others, is challenged by Horton in the first volume of his new series on the Divine-Self.

Listen in as Horton shares how this new intellectual history of “spiritual but not religious” as a phenomenon in Western culture is the biggest project he’s ever undertaken. Horton shows how ancient shamanist practices and philosophies appear in Plato, schools in Alexandria, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and more, revealing to us that modern practices and beliefs are far more ancient than we think.

SHAMAN AND SAGE: THE ROOTS OF “SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS” IN ANTIQUITY: https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802877116/shaman-and-sage/

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb

Where does the spirituality of enthusiasm and the New Apostolic Reformation ultimately lead? Hosts Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb show how ecstatic shaman-like spirituality wrought in enthusiasm results in an isolated life. While autonomous spiritual practices may free us from the external structures and authorities of religion, the hosts share how the ordinary means of grace is the only place where we find true freedom and rest in our spiritual lives.

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RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud by Philip Rieff

• The Sixties Spiritual Awakening by Robert Ellwood

• The Narcissism Epidemic with Jean Twenge and Michael Horton

• Generation Me with Jean Twenge and Michael Horton

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb

The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is one of the fastest growing movements "within or on the periphery of American Christianity." Join Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb as they discuss where this contemporary movement came from, what its tenets of dominionism, new apostles, and direct revelation are, why its teachings are so prominent in Contemporary Christian Music, and how they are connected to the old, esoteric tradition of enthusiasm.

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• Praying with Jesus: Getting to the Heart of the Lord's Prayer by Adriel Sanchez.

• Become a Partner to support the work of White Horse Inn as we apply the riches of the Reformation to the modern church.

• Subscribe to Modern Reformation magazine. Our May/June issue is “This Isn’t the Reformation You’re Looking For,” where we feature essays and articles about the “New Apostolic Reformation” (NAR) and how its vision of revivalism and enthusiasm is not the kind of renewal the church and culture needs.

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

• Redemptive History and the New Testament Scriptures by Herman Ridderbos

• Counterfeit Kingdom: The Dangers of New Revelation, New Prophets, and New Age Practices in the Church by Holly Pivec, R. Douglas Geivett

• A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement by Holly Pivec, R. Douglas Geivett

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Featuring: Michael Horton, Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland, and Justin Holcomb