The New Revelations: A Conversation with God
About This Book
The New Revelations: A Conversation with God is Walsch's most urgently focused dialogue — written in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, and addressed directly to the specific question of how religiously motivated violence could arise from sincere belief in a divine source of love, and what must change in humanity's understanding of God if such violence is to become impossible. The 'new revelations' of the title are five specific principles that the dialogue presents as the core of a new, more accurate understanding of God and of human identity — principles whose adoption, Walsch argues, would dissolve the theological foundations of virtually all religiously motivated conflict.
The five revelations address: the relationship between God and humanity (not of judge and judged but of the whole and its parts), the understanding of human identity (not as separate beings who may occasionally access the divine but as expressions of divinity), the understanding of life's purpose (not to please or appease God but to express and expand the divine through experience), the understanding of behaviour (not measured against absolute divine law but against the question of what serves the soul's expression of its divine nature), and the understanding of evolution (spiritual change as an ongoing adventure rather than a fixed destination of salvation or damnation). The New Revelations is arguably the most directly world-relevant of all the Conversations with God books.
What You'll Learn
• Understand the five new revelations: the specific principles Walsch presents as the core of a more accurate and more world-beneficial understanding of God — what each principle claims, how it differs from the corresponding teaching in mainstream religious traditions, and why adopting it would change the basis for religiously motivated conflict
• Grasp the post-9/11 context: how the specific historical moment of the book's writing (the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001) shapes its urgency and its specific focus — and how the questions the dialogue addresses (why sincere religious belief produces violence, what would have to change in our understanding of God to make such violence impossible) remain as relevant as they were when the book was written
• Recognise the common root diagnosis: Walsch's argument that all forms of religiously motivated violence share a common theological root — the belief in a God who has chosen favourites, who is served by specific beliefs and practices, and whose interests can conflict with those of human beings — and how each of the five revelations addresses a different dimension of this root belief
• Learn the new theology in positive form: how The New Revelations moves beyond critique to articulate the specific positive vision of God that the five revelations point toward — a God who is not separate from but expressed through every being, who has no favourites, whose love is genuinely unconditional, and who is served exclusively by the expression of love in action
• Appreciate the personal application: how The New Revelations translates the global theological argument into personal terms — what it means for one's own life to adopt each of the five revelations, how they change the practical experience of one's relationship to God, to oneself, and to other people, and how they create a foundation for the kind of inner peace that is the only genuine source of outer peace
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