ABSTRACT
A widely read book, Susan Harding's The Book of Jerry Falwell (2000), argues that in evangelical Christianity, what makes God come alive to people is the mastery of God's word. Among conservative Protestants and especially fundamentalists, Harding argues, it is the Word, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that converts the unbeliever. Since the late 1960s evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity has exploded as a cultural phenomenon, as has the New Age in all its many forms (like modern witchcraft and modern Santeria). Harding (2000) is certainly accurate when she reports that evangelical Christians often say that they are converted by the Word alone. Horizon Christian Fellowship in Southern California employs the no-frills, ordinary-folks approach characteristic of the 'new paradigm' Christian churches. In the religious context metakinesis is used to refer to mind-body states that are subjectively and idiosyncratically experienced even as they are known to the group as the way God's real presence in daily life is revealed.
