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Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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April 23, 2015
Deepak Chopra’s
Theology
Review of
Deepak
Chopra The 13th Disciple
(Harper & Row, 2015)
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
This book is a spiritual adventure
portraying a “mystery school story” which depicts Deepak Chopra’s theology. Having authored over 80 books and having appeared
on many television shows and elsewhere and having gained the respect of many
prominent people, his theology has become an important force in American (and
worldwide) thinking. My purpose here
will be to note the basic theology expressed in his latest book, not to provide
a literary review of the story itself.
Perhaps the most fundamental and important
of all questions pertains to the nature of the separation of man from God. The twentieth century philosopher-theologian
Cornelius Van Til very helpfully distinguished between those views which regard
this separation as a metaphysical problem and those views which regard this
separation as a moral problem. Christianity
regards man’s separation from God as due to sin, i.e. it is a moral
problem. Most forms of mysticism and gnosticism
regard man’s separation as due to a metaphysical problem. Chopra’s particular view is that it is
difficult for man to enter the reality of God because God is invisible. He states this position in the Afterward to
his story, on pp. 261-281. Chopra here says nothing whatever about man’s
sin being a hindrance to his overcoming his separation from God. This is the fundamental distinction of his
theology from that of Biblical theology.
