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In Handbook on Spiritual Formation, twenty-five church leaders explore spiritual formation in the light of history. This includes specific acts of liturgy, public worship, and prayer. The volume is an alternative to a humanistic education which has robbed some churches of the ability to transform believers. It assists congregations in producing the kind of people who can witness to the world...

is the arena within which to exercise Christian virtue. According to Thomas Gouge, Christians should “so spiritualize our hearts and affections that we may have heavenly hearts in earthly employments” (Ryken, 1991, p. 208). Instead of linking spirituality with a retreat to some “sacred space,” the Puritan ideal was that a person might know that “his shop as well as his chapel is holy ground” (Ryken, 1991, p. 208). While most Christians have seen the possibility of serving God in their work, the Puritan
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