Are Christian Publishers Promoting Contemplative Prayer and Interspirituality?

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Read this list, and you will better understand how contemplative spirituality has infiltrated mainstream Christendom.

News Briefs
Baker Books Goes Contemplative

Thomas Nelson Publishes Yoga for Christians!

NavPress Teaching
Contemplative Prayer to Kids
(coming to a Sunday School near you)

BAKER BOOKS

Preaching
Calvin Miller (author of Into the Depths of God)

Choose the Life
Bill Hull

God of the Possible
Gregory Boyd

An Emergent Manifesto of Hope
Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, Brian McLaren, Dan Kimball

The Divine Embrace
Robert Webber

Sacred Listening
James Wakefield

See also Emersion Books, Baker Books partnership venture with Emergent Village.

INTERVARSITY PRESS

Meditative Prayer
Richard J. Foster teaches readers how to use the classical Christian techniques of meditation to enhance times of prayer

A Renewed Spirituality
Celtic Christian spirituality, Nature, Benedictine Spirituality, Contemplative Prayer
By Lynne M. Baab

The Garden of the Soul
By Keri Wyatt Kent
Foreword by John Ortberg

Sacred Companions
By David G. Benner
(book promotes Nouwen, Merton, Foster, Keating, etc.)

ZONDERVAN
[Now partnered with Youth Specialties]

The Book of Uncommon Prayer: Contemplative and Celebratory Prayers ...
by Steve Case

The Sacred Way
by Tony Jones

The Purpose Driven Life
by Rick Warren

Hearing God
by Dallas Willard
"Richard Foster says this is
'the best book on divine guidance I have read'"

Making All Things New
And Other Classics
by Henri Nouwen

Reaching Out
by Henri Nouwen

Growth: Training vs. Trying
by John Ortberg

Messy Spirituality
by Mike Yaconelli

The Book of Uncommon Prayer: Contemplative and Celebratory Prayers and Worship Services for Youth Ministry
By Steve Case

Stories of Emergence
Edited by Mike Yaconelli

Emerging Worship
Dan Kimball

Reimagining Spiritual Formation
Doug Pagitt

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PUBLISHING NEWS

Zondervan and
Youth Specialties
Announce
New Publishing Partnership
Aimed at the Emerging Church

Zondervan Now Owned by
Publishers of the Satanic Bible, Harper Collins

Zondervan puts new spin on an old favorite, the Bible

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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness (the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom," "spiritual disciplines," and many others.

Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement.