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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