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Who's Promoting the Spiritual Disciplines and Contemplative Prayer?

Dallas Willard
"In recent years there has been an attempt to recover the disciplines because, in fact, they were lost, by and large. That is true in places you wouldn't expect it. I have found many Roman Catholics to whom the spiritual disciplines were almost unknown, lost. There's a wonderful priest in Pittsburgh who has a telephone program. He's called me occasionally when my books have come out, and one time we were on the air discussing The Spirit of the Disciplines, when someone called in and asked angrily, "Why don't you people teach these things any more? When I was young, Sister So-and-So taught us to fast, and taught us to contemplate and be silent, and now it's not taught any more." It's true. In many quarters of the Catholic church it isn't taught, or at least not effectively. In Protestant churches, with very little exception, it was totally lost, until back in the '70s, some writings began to appear."Dallas Willard, Spiritual Disciplines in a Postmodern World