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Embracing Contemplation: Reclaiming a Christian Spiritual Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does a Christian life lived “by the Spirit” look like? For many Christians throughout history, fulfilling Paul’s command in Galatians 5:25 included a form of contemplation and prayer that leads to spiritual formation. But in large part, contemporary Christians—perhaps especially evangelicals—seem to have lost or forgotten about this treasure from their own tradition. Bringing together...

in the access we are given to the Father in Christ by the Spirit (Eph 2:18–19). Contemplation is an act of faith by which we attend deeply to the divine revelation given in Christ by the Spirit. As such, contemplation is grounded on an act of love in God. Love “alone restores knowledge,” John Webster declared, and the mode by which Christians receive that love is through the knowledge received in contemplation.6 Therefore, contemplation of God has certain key characteristics that will be developed
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