Richard Foster—Leading Millions Astray
Richard Foster—Leading Millions Astray through Contemplative Spirituality
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FOSTER,
RICHARD
His Own Words:
"Spend
some time this week listening to contemplative music designed to
quiet you, settle you, deepen you. (Compact discs and tapes from
the Taize Community, John Michael Talbot, and the Monks of Weston
Priory are especially helpful.)" From
Renovare's Perspective Newsletter
What
is the Taize Community?
"Taize is an ecumenical sung and silent participatory prayer
service designed to achieve a contemplative state through music, song
and silence."
Practices Foster Promotes |
Richard Foster's "Bible"--THE RENOVARE STUDY BIBLE
Dallas
Willard's latest project?
A Richard Foster "Bible" called the Renovare Study Bible, was released by Harper SF in 2004. The Renovare "Bible"
will focus on Foster's six disciplines (from his book Streams
of Living Waters), one of which is the contemplative practice. One of the people quoted in the Renovare Study Bible is panentheist Thomas Kelly. In Streams of Living Waters,
Thomas Kelly is quoted as saying: "Deep within us all [all human beings] there is an amazing
inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Center" (p. 3 of Testament of Devotion, cited in Streams of Living Water, p. 23, 1st ed, 1998)
Dallas Willard played a large role in helping launch the Renovare Bible.
Samples of the Renovare Study Bible
Renovare
Conferences |
His
Writings |
Streams
of Living Water
Prayer:
Finding The Heart's True Home
Freedom
of Simplicity
Meditative Prayer
Renovare's major team member
Vaswig
was trained at Tilden Edward's Shalem Prayer Institute. Read
a few quotes from Tilden Edward's book, Spiritual Friend:
The
new ecumenism involved here is not between Christian and Christian,
but between Christians and the grace of other intuitively deep
religious traditions.(p. 172, 1980ed.)
"This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality."
And
yet in spite of quotes such as these that clearly illustrate a
universalist mentality ...read
more.
For more information and documentation about Richard Foster and contemplative spirituality, read Ray Yungen's cutting-edge book, A Time of Departing.
