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Spiritual direction and Baptists
Mountain, Tim
Mountain, Tim
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"Talk about and practice of spiritual direction has been slowly growing over recent years in Baptist circles. Twenty or thirty years ago, many Baptists would have regarded such a thing as spiritual direction suspiciously. Certainly, as Kenneth Leech pointed out, ‘spiritual direction cannot be said to have played a central role in most modern Protestant traditions’.1 It was a practice associated with Catholics or Anglo- Catholics, not nonconformists. Calling someone a ‘spiritual director’ suggested that a person would assume an authoritative place in a believer’s life—a place that rightly belongs to God. It is a distraction from the demands of an active ministry, an exercise in pious navel-gazing"
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2014
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