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Adult Books - Nonfiction - Religion
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Tomorrow’s God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge.
Walsch, Neale Donald (author).
Mar. 2004. 394p. Atria, hardcover, $25 (0-7434-5695-5). 204.
REVIEW.
First published February 15, 2004 (Booklist).
The Conversations with God guy is back, with more conversations with God. As he cautioned in The New Revelations (2002), so he cautions here: he doesn’t have much new to say. Still, “you might find . . . a New You. And a way to create a New World.” Half of this book retreads the turf trod in New Revelations , which, you’ll recall, had to do with junking the old, judgmental God in favor of the God that really is--a divinity who never asks for anything, doesn’t care how you connect with Him, doesn’t operate in terms of right and wrong but in terms of what works and what doesn’t, communicates all the time, and never damns anyone or lets anybody die. The other half is called “The Fourth Transformation,” and God assures us it’s inevitable. He points up in boldface what this transformation will bring, such as “your presently established religions will stop fighting with each other,” and “the idea that politics and spirituality do not mix will be abandoned forever.” Hmmm. Isn’t that what happens in a perfected Christian or Islamic society, anyway? God/Walsch isn’t about to deliquesce into Christianity or Islam, however, for He also bold-facedly predicts, “Your presently established religions will stop declaring that something can exist outside of God.” Those who believe that creator and creation are distinct probably should be discouraged from reading even that far. — Ray Olson
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