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Theology is “the doctrine of living unto God,” wrote the Puritan theologian William Ames. Unfortunately, post-Enlightenment theology has tended to divorce “doctrine” from “living unto God.” And to the degree that this split has been deepened and perpetuated, both theology and spirituality have been impoverished. Spiritual Theology is a rare book. In it, Simon Chan surveys the little-explored...

and defines the nature of our existence as a Christian community.3 What kind of life does the Christian story give rise to? This question is important, since the answer to it determines the shape of our spirituality. If the Christian community is a colony of “resident aliens,” it is still a colony existing in a larger sociopolitical context. The shape of our spirituality, therefore, must be true to both the context in which we live and the Christian story. Christians can only realize this by taking
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