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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...

fall upon their souls (Baxter, 1966, p. 173). Spirituality, in this view, is not so much the story of the soul’s seeking God as it is the story of seeing God-recognizing the presence of God in all of life. THE FAMILY AS AGENT OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION One of the hallmarks of Puritanism was its genius for maintaining a balance between competing poles. The personal and individual aspect of spiritual formation that I have discussed thus far was balanced by communal dimensions that fed the practice of personal
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