Wednesday, March 28, 2012

What Spiritual Formation Is

Monroe County

"Spiritual formation is our continuing response to the reality of God's grace shaping us into the likeness of Jesus Christ, through the work of the Holy Spirit, in the community of faith, for the sake of the world."
- Jeffrey Greenman, Life in the Spirit: Spiritual Formation in Theological Perspective, 24 


Greenman's book is a collection of the presentations given at Wheaton College's 2009 Theology Conference on Spiritual Formation.

You can (or may be able to) view or listen to all of the talks here.

  • Dallas Willard - Spiritual Formation as a Natural Part of Salvation
  • Jim Wilhoit - Centering Prayer: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • He Qi - An Artist Searches for Peace and Finds Christ in the Arts
  • Cherith Nordling - “Renewed in Knowledge in the Image of Our Creator”: Christ-Like Formation through “Psalms, Hymns and Songs of the Spirit"
  • David Gushee - Spiritual Formation and the Sanctity of Life
  • Susan Phillips - Spiritual Direction as a Navigational Aid in Sanctification
  • Kelly Kapic - Walking with God: John Owen's Vision of the Christian Life
  • George Kalantzis - Spirituality and the Mimetic Imp
  • Bruce Hindmarsh - True Religion: Early Evangelical Devotion and the Modern World
  • Chris Hall - The Theological Foundations of Lectio Divina: Reading Christ into the Heart
  • Jeffrey Greenman - Spiritual Formation in Theological Perspective: Classic Issues, Contemporary Challenges
  • Gordon Fee - On Getting the Spirit Back into Spirituality