![]() ![]() ![]() There is no doubt that Richard Foster’s book has helped to saturate the church with mystical contemplative prayer and New Age ideas. Christianity Today lauded Celebration of Discipline as one of the ten best books of the twentieth century, and it soon became a bestseller among evangelical Christians who should have known better. ![]() His famous book, Celebration of Discipline, the Path to Spiritual Growth, first published in 1978, sold more than two and a half million copies and opened the evangelical mind to the field of mystical spiritual exercises, meditation and contemplative prayer. Richard Foster is a Quaker theologian who has for decades been promoting the ideas of spiritual formation in the Church. Dr Tim Keller, Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, New York, in a series of lecturers on prayer, teaches his congregation about Richard Foster’s approach to meditation and contemplative prayer. ![]()
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