A Review of A New Earth
Mary Jo, of Confident Christainity, has reviewed Eckart Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose, here. This book has been touted by Oprah Winfrey in her promotion of her new age religious philosophy.
Mary Jo does a nice job explaining the basic premises of the book and pinpointing the major problems:
Though there are numerous problems with Tolle’s philosophy, there are three glaring issues that I will touch on in this review: 1) Tolle’s view of thought processes: Through excessive reliance on thinking, reality becomes fragmented (page 196) and Being must be felt. It can’t be thought (page 40), 2) The problem of special knowledge, and 3) The refuting of “either/or” logic using “either/or” logic.
She fleshes out these problems in more detail in her post. While acknowledging that Tolle is not wrong in everything he states in the book, she asserts that much more is wrong than is right. She further states:
This is only a brief review of some of the problems with Tolle’s book. There are many more issues to deal with such as the relativism problem, the revisionist history included, and the cherry-picking of arguments to make a better case. There are also numerous theological issues; such as Tolle’s concept of the Christian view of God, his exegesis of passages of Scripture, his doctrine of the nature of man, and his doctrine of Jesus.