Who says that Anthroposophy is a new religious movement or a religion or occultism or a Christian heresy, such as (neo)Gnosticism or (neo)Rosicrucianism? (counting authors + editors of collective books + translators)
Jung, Carl Gustav
Robertson, David G.
Gilmer, Jane
Quispel, Gilles
Layton, Bentley
van Oort, Johannes
Carlson, Maria
Livak, Leonid
McLachlan Wilson, Robert
Metzger, Bruce M.
Coogan, Michael D.
Diener, Astrid
Hipolito, Jane
Gardner, Martin
McDermott, Robert A.
Eliade, Mircea
Seddon, Richard
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas
Swartz, Karen
Hammer, Olav
Brandt, Katharina
Rothstein, Mikael
Geertz, Armin
Warburg, Margit
Toncheva, Svetoslava
Clemen, Carl
Frisk, Liselotte
Cusack, Carole M.
Norman, Alex
Zander, Helmut
Hoheisel, Karl
Hutter, Manfred
Klein, Wolfgang Wassilios
Vollmer, Ulrich
Ellwood, Robert
Partin, Harry
Winker, Eldon K.
Rhodes, Ron
Lewis, James R.
Tøllefsen, Inga Bårdsen
Gilhus, Sælid
Bogdan, Henrik
Partridge, Christopher
Ahlbäck, Tore
Schnurbein, Stefanie von
Ulbricht, Justus H.
Staudenmaier, Peter
Hansson, Sven Ove
Ahern, Geoffrey
Brown, Candy Gunther
The Catholic Church (all the Popes and Cardinals, beginning with 1919)
Note: Diener and Hipolito plead that (maybe) it is not heretical, but what it is then? Religiously orthodox (according to them). So, still a religion — "aspiring to the status of religious dogma" confirms this (page 78).
Bronnen, noten en/of referenties
↑Robertson, David G. (2021). Gnosticism and the History of Religions. Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 57. ISBN 978-1-350-13770-7. Geraadpleegd op 3 January 2023 "Theosophy, together with its continental sister, Anthroposophy... are pure Gnosticism in Hindu dress..."
↑Gilmer, Jane (2021). The Alchemical Actor. Brill, p. 41. ISBN 978-90-04-44942-8. Geraadpleegd op 3 January 2023 "Jung and Steiner were both versed in ancient gnosis and both envisioned a paradigmatic shift in the way it was delivered."
↑Carlson, Maria (2018). A Reader's Guide to Andrei Bely's "petersburg. University of Wisconsin Press, "Petersburg and Modern Occultism", p. 58. ISBN 978-0-299-31930-4. Geraadpleegd op 3 January 2023 "Theosophy and Anthroposophy are fundamentally Gnostic systems in that they posit the dualism of Spirit and Matter."
↑McL. Wilson, Robert (1993). The Oxford Companion to the Bible. Oxford University Press, "Gnosticism", p. 256. ISBN 978-0-19-974391-9. Geraadpleegd op 3 January 2023 "Gnosticism has often been regarded as bizarre and outlandish, and certainly it is not easily understood until it is examined in its contemporary setting. It was, however, no mere playing with words and ideas, but a serious attempt to resolve real problems: the nature and destiny of the human race, the problem of *evil, the human predicament. To a gnostic it brought a release and joy and hope, as if awakening from a nightmare. One later offshoot, Manicheism, became for a time a world religion, reaching as far as China, and there are at least elements of gnosticism in such medieval movements as those of the Bogomiles and the Cathari. Gnostic influence has been seen in various works of modern literature, such as those of William Blake and W. B. Yeats, and is also to be found in the Theosophy of Madame Blavatsky and the Anthroposophy of Rudolph Steiner. Gnosticism was of lifelong interest to the psychologist C. G. *Jung, and one of the Nag Hammadi codices (the Jung Codex) was for a time in the Jung Institute in Zurich."
↑Gardner, Martin (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications, 169, 224f. ISBN 978-0-486-20394-2. Geraadpleegd op 31 January 2022 "The late Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Anthroposophical Society, the fastest growing cult in post-war Germany... Closely related to the organic farming movement is the German anthroposophical cult founded by Rudolf Steiner, whom we met earlier in connection with his writings on Atlantis and Lemuria. ... In essence, the anthroposophists' approach to the soil is like their approach to the human body—a variation of homeopathy. (See Steiner's An Outline of Anthroposophical Medical Research, English translation, 1939, for an explanation of how mistletoe, when properly prepared, will cure cancer by absorbing "etheric forces" and strengthening the "astral body.") They believe the soil can be made more "dynamic" by adding to it certain mysterious preparations which, like the medicines of homeopathic "purists," are so diluted that nothing material of the compound remains."
↑McDermott, Robert A. (1987). The Encyclopedia of Religion. Macmillan Reference USA, "Anthroposophy", p. 320. ISBN 0-02-909700-2.
↑(en) Steiner, Rudolf, Seddon, Richard, Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (2004). Rudolf Steiner. North Atlantic Books, p. 7. ISBN 978-1-55643-490-7. Geraadpleegd op 2 January 2024 ""blended modern Theosophy with a Gnostic form of Christianity, Rosicrucianism, and German Naturphilosophie""
↑Swartz, Karen, Hammer, Olav (14 June 2022). Soft charisma as an impediment to fundamentalist discourse: The case of the Anthroposophical Society in Sweden. Approaching Religion12 (2): 18–37. ISSN: 1799-3121. DOI: 10.30664/ar.113383. “2. It can be noted that insiders routinely deny that Anthroposophy is a religion and prefer to characterise it as, for example, a philosophical perspective or a form of science. From a scholarly perspective, however, Anthroposophy has all the elements that one typically associates with a religion, for example, a charismatic founder whose status is based on claims of having direct insight into a normally invisible spiritual dimension of existence, a plethora of culturally postulated suprahuman beings that are said to influence our lives, concepts of an afterlife, canonical texts and rituals. Religions whose members deny that the movement they belong to has anything to do with religion are not uncommon in the modern age, but the reason for this is a matter that goes beyond the confines of this article.”.
↑Brandt, Katharina, Hammer, Olav (2013). Handbook of the Theosophical Current. Brill, "Rudolf Steiner and Theosophy", 113 fn. 1. ISBN 978-90-04-23597-7. Geraadpleegd op 23 January 2024 "From a scholar’s point of view, Anthroposophy presents characteristics typically associated with religion, and in particular concepts of suprahuman agents (such as angels), a charismatic founder with postulated insight into the suprahuman realm (Steiner himself), rituals (for instance, eurythmy), and canonical texts (Steiner’s writings). From an insider’s perspective, however, “anthroposophy is not a religion, nor is it meant to be a substitute for religion. While its insights may support, illuminate or complement religious practice, it provides no belief system” (from the Waldorf school website www.waldorfanswers.com/NotReligion1.htm , accessed 9 October 2011). The contrast between a scholarly and an insiders’ perspective on what constitutes religion is highlighted by the clinching warrant for this assertion. Although the website argues that Anthroposophy is not a religion by stating that there are no spiritual teachers and no beliefs, it does so by adding a reference to a text by Steiner, who thus functions as an unquestioned authority figure."
↑Hammer, Olav (2008). New Religions and Globalization. Aarhus University Press, p. 69. ISBN 978-87-7934-681-9. Geraadpleegd op 23 January 2024 "Anthroposophy is thus from an emic point of view emphatically not a religion."
Frisk, Liselotte (2012). Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production. Brill, 204 fn. 10, 208. ISBN 978-90-04-22187-1. Geraadpleegd op 1 January 2024 "Thus my conclusion is that it is quite uncontroversial to see Anthroposophy as a whole as a religious movement, in the conventional use of the term, although it is not an emic term used by Anthroposophists themselves."
Cusack, Carole M. (2012). Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production. Brill, p. 190. ISBN 978-90-04-22187-1. Geraadpleegd op 1 January 2024 "Steiner, of all esoteric and new religious teachers of the early twentieth century, was acutely aware of the peculiar value of cultural production, an activity with which he engaged with tireless energy, and considerable (amateur and professional) skill and achievement."
↑Ellwood, Robert, Partin, Harry (2016). Religious and Spiritual Groups in Modern America, 2nd. Taylor & Francis [1988, 1973], unpaginated. ISBN 978-1-315-50723-1. Geraadpleegd op 6 March 2023 "On the one hand, there are what might be called the Western groups, which reject the alleged extravagance and orientalism of evolved Theosophy, in favor of a serious emphasis on its metaphysics and especially its recovery of the Gnostic and Hermetic heritage. These groups feel that the love of India and its mysteries which grew up after Isis Unveiled was unfortunate for a Western group. In this category there are several Neo-Gnostic and Neo-Rosicrucian groups. The Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner is also in this category. On the other hand, there are what may be termed "new revelation" Theosophical schisms, generally based on new revelations from the Masters not accepted by the main traditions. In this set would be Alice Bailey's groups, "I Am," and in a sense Max Heindel's Rosicrucianism."
↑Winker, Eldon K. (1994). The New Age is Lying to You. Concordia Publishing House, p. 34. ISBN 978-0-570-04637-0. Geraadpleegd op 6 March 2023 "The Christology of Cerinthus is notably similar to that of Rudolf Steiner (who founded the Anthroposophical Society in 1912) and contemporary New Age writers such as David Spangler and George Trevelyan. These individuals all say the Christ descended on the human Jesus at his baptism. But they differ with Cerinthus in that they do not believe the Christ departed from Jesus prior to the crucfixion.12"
↑Ahlbäck, Tore (1 januari 2008). Rudolf Steiner as a religious authority. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis20. ISSN: 2343-4937. DOI: 10.30674/scripta.67323.
↑See also International Bureau of Education (1957). Bulletin of the International Bureau of Education. International Bureau of Education, p. 36. Geraadpleegd op 9 February 2024 "anthroposophy - a religion based upon the philosophical and scientific knowledge of man"
↑Hansson, Sven Ove (1 July 2022). Anthroposophical Climate Science Denial. Critical Research on Religion10 (3): 281–297 (SAGE Publications). ISSN: 2050-3032. DOI: 10.1177/20503032221075382.
↑Ahern, Geoffrey (2009). Sun at Midnight. James Clarke Company, p. 11. ISBN 978-0-227-17293-3.
↑Zie ook Brown, Candy Gunther (6 May 2019). Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools. University of North Carolina Press. DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648484.003.0012, "Waldorf Methods", 229–254. ISBN 978-1-4696-4848-4 "premised on anthroposophy, a religious sect founded by Steiner;"