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Monastic Evangelicals

The attraction of ancient spiritual disciplines.

Chris Armstrong | posted 2/08/2008 10:03AM

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Spirituality Squared | Webber's Divine Embrace touches both head and heart. (July 26, 2007)

The New Monasticism | A fresh crop of Christian communities is blossoming in blighted urban settings all over America. (September 2005)

Looking Back to Go Forward | Robert Webber urges churches to catch the spirit of the ancient model. (February 1, 2004)

Advent's Spiritual Pilgrimage | The birth of Christ is only the final stop when meditating this holiday season. An excerpt from Ancient-Future Time: Forming Spirituality Through the Christian Year. (Robert Webber, December 1, 2004)

Remonking the Church | Would a Protestant form of monasticism help liberate evangelicalism from its cultural captivity? (August 12, 1988)

The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, Northern Seminary, and AncientFutureWorship.com have more on Webber. Northern also hosts Webber's "Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future."

Christian History & Biography has many issues on the early church.

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curtis

Posted: February 19, 2008 9:45 AM

Where's Jesus? Why church history? If you want to know what the whole bible church thing is about... look to Jesus. He is the head of the church. He knows what He wants HIS church to look like and to be. He told us all about it in His word. The entire bible is about Jesus.. not what we call "church" or "religion". Man has messed up when it comes to church from the very begining.. so by going back in church history only gives us an older error to deal with. Look at your bible... the new testiment is full of correction to the early church. How about we get right with Jesus and ask Him what our churhes should look like. If you want to go back in time.. go back to your creator . Christian tradition is dead... we should have learned that from Jesus when He dealt with the religious leaders of His day. He called them white washed tombs full of dead mens bones.... He also said... that they belonged to their father satan. Something to think about. Do you really believe in Jesus?

Greg Chase

Posted: February 13, 2008 4:41 PM

Methodologies come methodologies go. What is most important is knowing God, not just about Him. I admit that doing litergies or prayer books have caused me to worship when visiting other churches because it is looking through another lens at the Eternal. However, most of those who were with me from that particular tradition, looked bored to death. Tradition does not bring me to God and worship. Jesus, himself, did not like the traditions of man no matter how godly they seemed. Worshiping "in Spirit and in Truth" in all its freshness needs to come forth from us regardless of tradition. After all we are not the "fiddler on the roof."

Linda

Posted: February 12, 2008 5:18 PM


Why don't these new evangelicals just join the Roman Catholic church?

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