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| Wheaton
College —Promoting
Spiritual Formation and Contemplative Prayer |
Links
to Show Their Involvement:
Over
300 pages on Spiritual
Formation
24
listings on Contemplative
Over
150 pages on Emerging
Courses
Using Contemplative Authors
Evangelism
542
Strategies for Contemporary Evangelism
Spring 2005
Professor Jerry Root
CE
323 Dynamics of Spiritual Growth
Spring 2006
James C. Wilhoit
Look
who Wheaton College is Promoting:
Calvin
Miller (Into the Depths of God)
Richard
Foster, Dallas Willard, David Steindl-Rast in their Spiritual
Formation course (Evangelism 516)
And
Teaching:
Lectio
Divina
The
Labyrinth
Yoga
"Exercise such as aerobic conditioning, flexibility training/yoga,
muscle strength/endurance conditioning helps the body and mind
deal with stress and tension." |
COLLEGE WATCH - Wheaton Continues
Promoting Contemplative Prayer
In March 2006, we reported
that Wheaton College was promoting contemplative spirituality. Many
concerned Christians contacted Wheaton to discuss the matter. However,
we are sad to report that the Spring
2006 issue of Wheaton's magazine, Wheaton (p.20+), has a feature
article on contemplative prayer.
Wheaton professor James Wilhoit is quoted in the article as saying:
"When you come to see that there is a divine transforming mystery
calling you into relationship, it doesn't become a matter of practices,
it becomes a matter of responding to that call." But that "divine
transforming mystery" that contemplative prayer offers through the
silence is not the mystery the Bible speaks of in Colossians 1 when
it says the mystery of God is Christ in us (believers), the hope
of glory.
The Wheaton article continues ... "Like his students, Dr.Wilhoit
experienced his own 'contemplative conversion,' and says people
interested in finding out more might turn to authors like Henri
Nouwen, Richard J. Foster, and Wheaton alumnus, Dr. Bruce Demarest."
We predict that Christian colleges that plunge into contemplative
will lead students to a widening of interspiritual and panentheistic
viewpoints. We pray that the professors at Wheaton will realize
this before too many more students are led astray.
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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. |
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