Neoplatonist Stew

This book leaves few denominational toes untrodden. An objective review of Church history demonstrates that Christian theology soon went astray from that laid out in the New Testament as the Fathers of the Church lost their understanding of sound interpretive principles. Theology began to be supplemented then co-opted and corrupted by Greek philosophy: namely Middle Platonism then Neoplatonism and later Theurgy. The external heterodox doctrines derived from Pagan philosophy were embraced by the Eastern Church carried into the Western Church repeatedly revived in the Medieval Church in the form of Scholasticism Mysticism and Catholic Church dogma and re-popularized by modern theologians to the present day. The negative influence of these heterodoxies is manifest in modern elements of Mysticism Contemplative Prayer Sacramentalism Sacerdotalism the so-called New Theology and emphasis on Universalism Liberation Unity Mystical Union apotheosis divinization and spiritual formation.