formation. To put it differently, and perhaps more helpfully, there remains a gap in contemporary evangelicalism between our expectations in the Christian life and engagement with the in-depth spiritual theology that our forebears managed to articulate. While this is true across the various topics and issues in spiritual formation, maybe nowhere else is this gap so wide as with contemplation. Take, for example, the work of Richard Baxter. Richard Baxter was a seventeenth-century Puritan pastor best