The Spirit of the Disciplines
by Dallas Willard
Why the spiritual disciplines matter: the body is the place of spiritual life, grace is opposed to earning but not to effort, and disciplines of abstinence and engagement train the whole person. Philosophically rigorous, less accessible than Foster.
Read it if…
you want the theory under the practices.
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Skip it if…
you want the practices themselves; see Foster.
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Three things you will actually use
- Grace is not opposed to effort, only to earning.
- The body is the vehicle of the spirit.
- Train, don't just try.
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Read the chapter on 'salvation is a life'.
Our verdict
The theory under the practices.
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