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 Bold Balderdash: Silliness Introduced as Theology January 21, 2002
13 out of 55 found this review helpful
"Introduction to A Course in Miracles" simplifies an overwhelming three volume set of theologically skewed ideas. These ideas aren't well-founded in the long version; they aren't well-founded in this introduction. And, the book manages to insult thinking Catholics and Protestants in the process.
The connections "A Course" has desired to make with Christianity is only the loosely, most fallible kind. While Williamson would not say this is Christianity, I think she'd say it is consistent with Christianity. It isn't.
For the new age believer, buy this book. For the Catholic or protestant, don't get buy this. You'll simply feel your intelligence and spirituality insulted, and that the authors belittle you because you believe in one God in Christ.
I do not recommend "Introduction to A Course in Miracles." It is remarkably deep in superficial new age thinking, offering only confusion to society.
 Sanity Saver December 21, 2000
223 out of 226 found this review helpful
When my 3-vol. book "A Course in Miracles" arrived, I eagerly began reading the Text, and after finishing the first chapter, was also sampling parts of the Workbook for Students as well as the Manual for Teachers. Seeing great promise in all of this and wanting it all immediately would provide much more frustration than I was already feeling because "A Course in Miracles" is long, and presented in small methodical steps which also induces much soul-searching. All very wonderful, but time consuming, and when one is hungering for a "quick fix" or wondering where it'll all lead to, it gets your head spinning. So two days later when my copy of "An Introduction to A Course in Miracles" arrived, I read it cover to cover and now feel very satisfied! This short book could stand on it's own, giving a very readable and easily understandable synopsis of the Course which made me feel more in tune with what I had already read, and more ready to be able to start applying its' ideas now. I know that I'll be keeping the "Introduction to ..." right with the "Course ..." because I'll want to reread it periodically to take a break from the more intense work of the text, and to keep a lighter overview of it in mind! It already has been, and I'm sure will be a 'sanity saver' for me!
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