practices. What is lacking is any awareness of how Protestants from the sixteenth century onward adapted Roman Catholic practices that they inherited according to their own emerging Protestant sensibilities and theology.16 One might be surprised to hear a similar outcry from Donald Bloesch, the well-respected evangelical theologian who died in 2010. His final book, Spirituality Old and New, signaled a significant retreat from his earlier supportive affirmation of contemplation and Christian mysticism.