tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post8972237554528867116..comments2023-11-26T10:01:30.540-06:00Comments on Barnabas File: A Recovering ModernistBarnabas Filehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03635912195437033251noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post-45720518185016831952008-09-12T09:32:00.000-05:002008-09-12T09:32:00.000-05:00Ircel,I too, am in that place in my spiritual life...Ircel,<BR/>I too, am in that place in my spiritual life where I am craving more of the mystical experience. Thank you for your insight, encouragement and affirmation that there are other Christians, some even in the Baptist faith, who are seeking such spiritual growth. I have beeen re-reading Glenn Hinson's book, A Serious Call to A Comtemplative Lifestyle and also Brother Lawrences', Practicing the Presence of God. I enjoying using the journal, Weavings, for lectio divine. Blessings as you go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post-70463332182866118962008-08-05T08:40:00.000-05:002008-08-05T08:40:00.000-05:00Thanks,Chris. This is helpful.Thanks,Chris. This is helpful.Barnabas Filehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03635912195437033251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29860408.post-40196198794662904572008-08-05T08:29:00.000-05:002008-08-05T08:29:00.000-05:00Hello Ircel,I found this post through a link on Da...Hello Ircel,<BR/><BR/>I found this post through a link on Darrel Pursiful's blog. Thank you for your thoughts.<BR/><BR/>I would like to think we Baptists aren't so much children of the Enlightenment as much as we are its unfortunate adoptees. After all, our origins predate the Enlightenment and our forebears have exemplified spiritual, communitarian, and yes, sacramental traditions. E Glenn Hinson, for example, noted similarities between Baptist and medieval spirituality in an article for Cistercian Studies Quarterly some 20+ years ago. Other such explorations of non-Enlightenment Baptist throught have been made in books like <I>Ties that Bind: Life Together in the Baptist Vision</I>, <I>Baptist Sacramentalism</I>, and <I>Recycling the Past or Researching History?</I>.<BR/><BR/>Are you familiar with the <I>Christian Reflection</I> series that the Baylor Center for Christian Ethics publishes for free each quarter? If you go to www.christianethics.ws you can follow the links to online versions of CR and read their issue on mysticism. That might be a good place for you to go as you continue your reflections on worship and the balance of the rational and mystical.<BR/><BR/>Blessings,<BR/>ChrisChris Schelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13957435278692697081noreply@blogger.com