This is an excellent book, not just for those who are interested in the New Age movement, but for all who are looking to deepen their understanding of the Biblical World view in our modern age. It is a non technical, profound, fair and very clear exposition of the main issues. My only criticism is that the title itself does not reflect the breadth of the author's treatment of various alternative ways of understanding the cosmos in an age of ever advancing scientific understanding of what the universe is, and what our place in it might be.

The main thrust of the book is to show very convincingly how New Agers have misused the baffling discoveries of modern science to advance their own metaphysics. However in successfully making his case Ernest Lucas also introduces the reader to the inherent mysteries of relativity, quantum theory and the nature of life  which, as science progresses, become more and more awe inspiring as the old materialist, reductionist and mechanistic view of the universe breaks down.

From the position of a highly qualified scientist and Biblical scholar Ernest Lucas  gives us very good surveys and criticisms of Eastern Mysticism, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Sheldrake (morphic fields to explain the genesis and behaviour of living things), Lovelock (the Gaia hypothesis and mother earth), the modern ecology movement, and Process Theology. 

He does not deny the mysterious interconnectedness of things across the bounds of space and time, but expounds it in the context of a Trinitarian God who although transcendent is also immanent in His creation which He loves and for which Christ came, died and rose again. That alone the author believes gives us a sound basis for scientific investigation of the universe and the caring for our planet as we love and cherish that which its Creator and Redeemer loves and cherishes.

The notes, bibliography and index are good full and helpful.