Michael Horton’s New Book on the Origins of “Spiritual but Not Religious”

I was in a pseudo spiritual cult for three years (Word of faith/ NAR/ positive confession/ rituals) and Michael Horton and White Horse Inn has really helped me out of it and pointed me to the real gospel of Christ. Thank you WHI !

“The only thing that would turn things around is a massive cultural rejection of the dogma of autonomy.” Mic drop. 🎤

Spiritual but not religious is like saying I like apples but not trees

Great interview! Ty!

Dr. Michael Horton is a prolific writer. Where does he find the time?

It is really what has been compiled as the perennial philosophy as well.

True to Mike's reputation, he laser-focuses on THE point of the problem: Adam was the first enthusiast. Rejecting autonomy begins with each soul saved by Christ, in repentance and humble gratitude. The Disneyfication of the christian religion needs to be called out, avoided, rejected and the true Gospel needs to be taught and defended. Entertainment products like The Chosen (industrial profiteering of Jesus) and the various New Apostolic Reformation gimmicks, portray mega-blasphemous autonomy at a whole other level. Thank you Lord, for Dr. Horton's tireless work and love for Your people and Your Word. In the midst of the perilous realm, we are blessed.🙏

Really fascinating, thank you for that excellent and thought provoking discussion - I wish there had been a discussion of some of the other approaches to Plato - Nietzsche, Strauss, and Vogelin to further the idea of what is going on with Plato in the modern world, I hope his book discusses it further.

The most modern iteration of "spiritual but not religious" arose with Alcoholics Anonymous, which described (and still describes) itself as such.

Thank you Michael

The moment you see the world around you with the flow of everything that I learned from reading philosophy I studied the "WHY" because men still haven't asked half the population of the world of humans our perspective, faces and speech isn't seen much on movies, pictures and pictures such as U Tube.

Real religion in real antiquity ... does not match the EO/RCC propaganda. But perennial spirituality occurs in every generation.

What a timely topic to cover, only 15 years after the last time someone said this phrase unironically.

Well wouldn't you know that this is now arising. Lovely sparkle for the future.

"To some extent modern scientific rationality is the offspring of a long, romantic, and quarrelsome relationship between Christianity and hermeticism." (41:25 mark)

'Spiritual but not religious' to me is akin to God saying, "It IS Good that Man is alone." It's Adam without Eve. It's Christ without his bride. I don't experience an atomized type of anything in the world around me. Heck, I must 'bind together' (religion) these letters to form words to make up the sentences that make up the paragraph that gets this point across. I can't even explain a point to you without being religious. Religios simply makes more sense phenomalogically. I've been looking into this issue of atomiziation Michael talked about. I'm Catholic, but I still appreciate my reformed brothers like Michael Horton!

27:45 the term he’s looking for is “Philosophia Christi” “But the prince must be forearmed with an antidote, after this fashion he whom you are reading is a pagan; you who are reading, are a Christian. Although he speaks with authority on many subjects, yet he by no means gives an accurate picture of the good prince. Look out that you do not chance upon something in his works which you think you must therefore imitate directly. Measure everything by the Christian standard.” - Erasmus in ‘Institutio principis Christiani’

Well well well … I’m starting to understand the significance of Jordan Peterson’s church that he founded (apparently to become a marriage officiant - yeah right). He named it: “The Church of the Spirit of St. Joachim of Florence”.

Viva Cristo Rey ❤

Belief in religion has no bearing on whether there’s a god.