Yesterday, inspired by a final exam for Christian Devotional Classics (Evangelical Seminary), I kicked off a series on Receiving from the Christian Devotional Classics with a post on Thomas Merton & the Desert Fathers. Before going further with the series I thought that it would be helpful to wrestle with the question, "What is a Christian Devotional Classic?" Maybe this reminds you of the larger conversation regarding What IS a Christian Book? (A Working Definition), a topic we broached when launching The Best … [Read more...] about What is a Christian Devotional Classic?
Christian Devotional Classics
Receiving from the Christian Devotional Classics: Thomas Merton & the Desert Fathers
No, I'm not creating a Dead Theologians Society Reading List, another version of The Best Christian Book of All Time March Madness, or even another book review/discussion series per se. Instead I'm in the process of completing the final exam for my summer class on Christian Devotional Classics (Evangelical Seminary). Really, a final exam? Yes, Laurie Mellinger, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation and Christian Theology, Dean of Academic Programs), has us wrap-up the roundtable presentation/discussion … [Read more...] about Receiving from the Christian Devotional Classics: Thomas Merton & the Desert Fathers
Late Have I Loved You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxaCs3vRpG0 In last night's Christian Devotional Classics (Evangelical Seminary) a fellow student shared how much he appreciated Gungor's "lifting" of the words of Augustine's Confessions in Late have I loved you. As you may remember Augustine's Confessions won ESN's Best Christian Book of All Time and this is a beautiful selection from the text. Belatedly I loved thee, O Beauty so ancient and so new, belatedly I loved thee. For see, thou wast within and I was without, and I … [Read more...] about Late Have I Loved You