I receive quite a few manuscripts with a spiritual or “New Age” slant, but I only publish religious books that avow Christian theology (cf. Matthew 26:75) — as a matter of principle, I avoid books that rely upon a holistic or nondenominational view of spirituality. This is not to say that I have a literal-minded or anti-ecumenical view of Christianity; rather, my view is that “we are not skilled to understand” the ways in which the truth claims of science and Christianity are ultimately consistent.
By contrast, I view generic or “New Age” spiritualism as neither science nor religion. In terms of science, I see spiritualism’s truth claims as having only accidental predictive power–I believe spiritualism is describing actual phenomena of consciousness, but that spiritualists, are, to be blunt, exercising their God-given powers of imagination and narrative to make an appealing story. In terms of religion, I view spiritualism as merely a denatured form of authentic faith, sadly alienated from its historical and cultural sources of authority and meaning.
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