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Roy-Guglielmi, Karen Lorna. "Building the family of God a daily devotional for Lent, Easter, Advent, and Christmas /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Hedding, Edward L. "The uniqueness of Christian meditation." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 1986. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Menninger, James Joseph. "Enhancing the devotional life of college students through prayer, meditation, and visualization." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Brownsberger, John A. "Christian meditation its value and relationship to a New Testament view of discipleship /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Gates, Gary Bert. "Bible reading as communion with God a historical study of monastic Lectio divina, denoting its influence upon Puritan meditation and proposing its applicability for the Christian today /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Zimmerman, George L. "The effectiveness of focusing and Christian Contemplative Meditation on trust development in intimate relationships." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq20963.pdf.

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Romandini, Doreen Jane. "John Main as religious educator." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23737.

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In the context of the contemporary rebirth of interest in contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, many people, e.g., Laurence Freeman (1995), Eileen O'Hea (1990), Bede Griffiths (1991), have begun to examine the writings of John Main.
This thesis presents John Main's understanding of Christian Meditation, in particular, his recovery from the Desert monks of the 4th century, of the practice of 'pure prayer' (silent meditation using a prayer word or mantra). Main recovered the use of a mantra as a way of meditation within the tradition of the Christian church.
The thesis also discusses some aspects of the Christian life and themes which are relevant to his teaching and finally, articulates some implications for contemporary religious/spirituality education. Comparisons are made between Main's pedagogical approach and that of several other contemporary Christian educators.
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Keßler, Christian H. S. [Verfasser]. "Ayurveda, Yoga, Meditation – Traditionelle Indische Medizin und ihr Bezug zu den fünf Säulen der Naturheilkunde : Habilitationsschrift / Christian H.S. Keßler." Berlin : Medizinische Fakultät Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1214241239/34.

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Tsai, Sun. "A pilot study on the impact of Christian meditation and biofeedback on the mental health of graduate students in seminary." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10195315.

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This pilot study examined the impact of Christian meditation and biofeedback on levels of stress, anxiety, and depression of seminary students in Southern California. Participants were randomly assigned to practice Christian meditation or biofeedback for 4 weeks, three times per day, and to keep a log of their practice times.The study included 20 seminary students all of whom were theology students and who were recruited from two seminary campuses in Southern California. The participants were of various ethnic backgrounds with the majority being European Americans. The average age was 31. The results from a paired samples t-tests indicated that both biofeedback and Christian meditation significantly reduced the levels of stress, anxiety, and depression experienced by the participants. ANCOVA indicated that neither intervention was more effective than the other. The implications, limitations, and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Beers, Jerome L. "A Video Resource for Teaching Meditative Prayer in the Christian Tradition to People Living with Tourette Syndrome." Ashland Theological Seminary / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=atssem1608643878170021.

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Schunck, Volker. "Ein Leben und ein Sein." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-87109.

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Alain, Vincent. "Analyse et distinction La logique des notions en Allemagne de 1684 à 1790. Quelques remarques pour servir à l’étude des réceptions par Christian Wolff et Emmanuel Kant des Meditationes de Cognitione, Veritate et Ideis de Leibniz." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040021.

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Leibniz publie à Leipzig en 1684 un court opuscule devenu classique, Meditationes de Cognitione, Veritate et Ideis. Cet essai de quelques pages constitue un véritable discours de la méthode pour la philosophie allemande. Ce travail tente de justifier cette assertion en reconstituant les étapes de la réception par Christian Wolff et Emmanuel Kant de ce court texte. Elle est ainsi conduite à étudier le développement en Allemagne d’une Begriffsanalyse. Elle affronte donc ce problème : qu’est-ce qu’analyser pour Wolff puis pour Kant ? L’étude de cette logique des notions, de son lien avec les mathématiques et du concept cartésienne de Mathesis universalis, aboutit à préciser la distinction kantienne entre méthode dogmatique et dogmatisme. Cette enquête remonte aux sources leibniziennes de la division classique des jugements en analytiques et synthétiques. Elle se conclut par l’étude de la critique d’Eberhard. Bref, pour reprendre une formule de Michel Fichant, elle tente d’établir « que derrière l’allemand de Kant se tient le latin de Leibniz »
Leibniz published in 1684 a short opuscule, Meditationes de Cognitione, Veritate et Ideis. This Leibniz’s essay of few pages is a true discours de la méthode for the German philosophy. This research tries to justify this declaration and restores the reception of this short text by Christian Wolff and Immanuel Kant. This work studies the development of the Begriffsanalyse in Germany. But, what means analysis for Wolff and for Kant? The study of this logic of notions, its bond to mathematics and with the Cartesian conception of Mathesis universalis, clarifies the Kantian distinction between dogmatic method and dogmatism. This inquiry goes back to the Leibnizian origin of the classical division of analytic and synthetic judgments. This work comes to an end by the study of Eberhard’s critic of the Critic. In short, like Michel Fichant formulated, this study wants to make manifest that « behind German words of Kant lay down Latin words of Leibniz »
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Rydberg, Andreas. "Inner Experience : An Analysis of Scientific Experience in Early Modern Germany." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-320753.

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In the last decades a number of studies have shed light on early modern scientific experience. While some of these studies have focused on how new facts were forced out of nature in so-called experimental situations, others have charted long-term transformations. In this dissertation I explore a rather different facet of scientific experience by focusing on the case of the Prussian university town Halle in the period from the late seventeenth till the mid-eighteenth century. At this site philosophers, theologians and physicians were preoccupied with categories such as inner senses, inner experience, living experience, psychological experiments and psychometrics. In the study I argue that these hitherto almost completely overlooked categories take us away from observations of external things to the internal organisation of experience and to entirely internal objects of experience. Rather than seeing this internal side of scientific experience as mere theory and epistemology, I argue that it was an integral and central part of what has been referred to as the cultura animi tradition, that is, the philosophical and medical tradition of approaching the soul as something in need of cultivation, education, disciplination and cure. The study contains four empirical chapters. In the first chapter I analyse the meaning and function of experience in Christian Wolff’s philosophy understood as spiritual exercise and cultura animi. In the second chapter I examine experience in the theologian Hermann Francke’s cultura animi, focusing particularly on the relation between scientific experience and what scholars have referred to as religious experience. In the third chapter I chart aesthetic experience in Alexander Baumgarten’s aesthetics. In the fourth chapter I examine the role of experience in the medicine of Georg Ernst Stahl, Friedrich Hoffmann and their followers. The analysis of medical experience channels the discussion into questions regarding the relation between the cultura animi tradition and the kind of attitudes, practices and processes that have been connected to modern objectivity.
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Seerveld, Calvin, Bernard Zylstra, Hendrik Hart, and Roseanne Lopers Sweetman. "Perspective vol. 14 no. 6 (Dec 1980)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251301.

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Kuipers, Ronald Alexander, Robert Sweetman, Michael J. DeMoor, Rebekah Smick, Ronald Kurt Shuker, and Rachael McGuire. "Perspective vol. 44 no. 1 (Feb 2010)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251198.

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Kuipers, Ronald A., Robert Sweetman, Michael DeMoor, Rebekah Smick, Ronald Kurt Shuker, and Rachael McGuire. "Perspective vol. 44 no. 1 (Feb 2010)." 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277687.

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Mdingi, Hlulani Msimelelo. "The Revelation of God : meditations of the black church in existential times." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25123.

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Chapter one begins by introducing and orientating the reader to the study and the purpose of the study, namely the revelation of God. It also opens up what is central to the study by a way of a problem statement concerning this revelation of God, the black church and the human condition. The aims of the study and the research methodology are set out. The chapter ends with a hypothesis concerning the future doctrine of revelation and the prospects of this revelation in the lives of black people. Chapter two entails discussion on God and the church, as it pertains to revelation, starting with a historical account of Christian theology on the subject of revelation. The subject of revelation is engaged on an existential level, particularly the main areas of Christian theology, namely; special and general revelation. This is a section that puts both concepts within black experience, to see the viability for a black ecclesiology and black theology. Chapter two moves on to contend that for black church, there is a serious theological insurgent that is necessary and it is part and parcel of God’s revelation to blacks and the oppressed. This outlook places a section of critical reasoning in South African context and society concerning God’s revelation. Chapter three engages a philosophical meditation, ascribing meditation as a state of self-reflection for the black church and black theology. This meditation is cognisant of black experience and is self-diagnosis concern God and humanity, particularly the dehumanising, (how it must affirm essence and substance). The meditation of the black church engages the concept of absurdity as Camus (1995) (also see Melancon 1983) has posited the absurd as a malaise in the world and silence of the word to that malaise. The absurd is also linked to theodicy, however, the black experience and the encounter with God transcends absurdity and theodicy. As part of the transcending aspect of the black experience, the research considers Western atheism, Christianity and death of God, whose burial is in the mind, souls and bodies of blacks. The chapter then moves on to discuss the black church as a receptor of God’s revelation, the new image of the crucified and the new metaphysics guaranteeing the upliftment of blacks. Chapter four focuses on the black invisibility and the hiddenness of God, it is seeing invisibility and hiddenness as linked together. The chapter also focuses on the need for black visibility rooted in the ontological and physiological expression and experience of being human; Imago Dei. The chapter links black visibility with the concept of whiteness, being a dehumanising political identity imposed on the people of colour. The chapter then translates into the context of visibility, invisibility and God’s revelation within the economic South African context. The final analysis of the chapter is a confession of God’s revelation rooted in God’s visibility and running parallel to that of black visibility. Chapter five proposes that the black experience and the use of the Bible Sola Sriptura, as it reveals the black church as part of church history. As such, it takes the early church’s reading of the New Testament and understanding of Christology through kenosis; the emptying of God to be human and using that paradigm to link Christ’s human experience and the experience of the dehumanising and humanising that of blacks. The chapter concludes with a Christology and black Messiah, who links the secular and divine, general and special revelation. Chapter six concerns the findings of the study, recommendations and conclusion.
Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology
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Cashmore, Simon John Mark. "The value of the spirituality of John Cassian (c365-435) for contemporary Christian communities." Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/14223.

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Most recent studies of Cassian and his writings have examined the monk’s historical contexts, the theology expressed in his texts or his role in the development of monasticism. This dissertation examines the spirituality of Cassian and assesses its value to contemporary Christian communities. By applying a hermeneutical approach to the study of Cassian’s texts, the investigation distinguishes between the spirituality of Cassian, the historical person; the spirituality Cassian conveys in his writings; and Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience. The dissertation argues that Cassian’s spirituality as lived experience, as elicited by Gadamer’s hermeneutical model of conversation between text and interpreter, is valuable to contemporary Christian communities. It offers a spiritual ‘route map’ that can inspire, encourage and guide members of such communities on a spiritual journey that leads to greater intimacy with, and faithfulness to, Christ. The hermeneutical process necessary to appropriate the spirituality of Cassian as lived experience has the potential to dismantle prejudgements and attitudes of superiority and triumphalism often displayed by Christian communities and encourage fresh engagement with the history, traditions and Scriptures of the Church.
Christian Spirituality, Church History & Missiology
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Zylstra, Bernard, Cal Seerveld, and Haan Phil de. "Perspective vol. 19 no. 2 (Apr 1985)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251273.

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Zylstra, Bernard, Calvin Seerveld, and Haan Phil de. "Perspective vol. 19 no. 2 (Apr 1985)." 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277603.

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Jenkins, Hugh Peter. "A study of the origins, development and contemporary manifestations of Christian retreats." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1501.

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The dissertation is a study of the origins, development and contemporary manifestations of Christian retreats. It traces origins from the Biblical record until current retreats. Christian retreat is a period of withdrawal from usual activities to experience encounter with God through Christian prayer. Jesus' pattern of engagement in ministry and withdrawal is a vital basis for retreat. Other Biblical descriptions of retreat are studied. There is an examination of retreat experiences in Church history with a particular focus on monasticism, as a major expression of retreat life, and Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the modern retreat movement. Varieties of subsequent retreat types in the spiritualities of different traditions from the Protestant Reformation onwards are considered. The spectrum of study includes Protestant, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Pentecostal spiritualities. The study culminates in focusing on current Ignatian and other retreats in their many forms. This includes private devotions to lengthy periods of retreat.
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Kissner, Klemens. "Die Bedeutung der Schriftmeditation für junge Erwachsene freikirchlichen Hintergrunds : eine qualitative Fallstudie." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3022.

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Middleton, J. Richard, Jack Westerhof, and Paul A. Marshall. "Perspective vol. 14 no. 5 (Oct 1980)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251302.

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Marshall, Paul A., and Dick Pierik. "Perspective vol. 18 no. 5 (Oct 1984)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251277.

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Sweetman, Roseanne Lopers, Andel Henry J. Van, Robert E. VanderVennen, Calvin Seerveld, Kathy Vanderkloet, and Bernard Zylstra. "Perspective vol. 16 no. 1 (Feb 1982)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251293.

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Seerveld, Calvin, Bernard Zylstra, Brian J. Walsh, Haan Phil de, and Robert E. VanderVennen. "Perspective vol. 18 no. 6 (Dec 1984)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251276.

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Suk, John D., Sophie Vandenberg, and Calvin Seerveld. "Perspective vol. 42 no. 1 (Feb 2008)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251167.

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Suk, John D., Sophie Vandenberg, and Calvin Seerveld. "Perspective vol. 42 no. 1 (Feb 2008)." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277516.

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Clemenger, Bruce J., Jeremy E. Fisher, Harry Fernhout, and Amy Harrison Rowe. "Perspective vol. 24 no. 2 (Apr 1990)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251203.

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Clemenger, Bruce J., Jeremy E. Fisher, Harry Fernhout, and Amy Harrison Rowe. "Perspective vol. 24 no. 2 (Apr 1990)." 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277533.

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Walsh, Brian J., Robert E. VanderVennen, and Evelyn Kuntz Hielema. "Perspective vol. 13 no. 6 (Dec 1979)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251308.

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Seerveld, Calvin, Clifford C. Pitt, Carol-Ann Veenkamp, Dave Woods, and Gary Duim. "Perspective vol. 20 no. 1 (Feb 1986)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251269.

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Seerveld, Calvin, Clifford C. Pitt, Carol-Ann Veenkamp, Dave Woods, and Gary Duim. "Perspective vol. 20 no. 1 (Feb 1986)." 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277599.

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Pitt, Clifford C., Gwendolyn Dekker, Harry J. Kits, James H. Olthuis, and G. Marcille Frederick. "Perspective vol. 21 no. 5 (Oct 1987)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251258.

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Pitt, Clifford C., Gwendolyn Dekker, Harry J. Kits, James H. Olthuis, and G. Marcille Frederick. "Perspective vol. 21 no. 5 (Oct 1987)." 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277588.

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Vandenberg, Sophie, Robert Sweetman, Sylvia C. Keesmaat, Lambert Zuidervaart, and Carl Veldman Rudie. "Perspective vol. 43 no. 1 (Feb 2009)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251200.

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Vandenberg, Sophie, Robert Sweetman, Sylvia C. Keesmaat, Lambert Zuidervaart, and Carol Veldman Rudie. "Perspective vol. 43 no. 1 (Feb 2009)." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/277689.

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Seerveld, Calvin, Bernard Zylstra, Robert E. VanderVennen, Ginkel Aileen Van, Justin Cooper, and C. T. McIntire. "Perspective vol. 17 no. 5 (Dec 1983)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251282.

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Seerveld, Calvin, Adrienne Dengerink, Ginkel Aileen Van, Kathy Vanderkloet, and Nicholas Terpstra. "Perspective vol. 16 no. 6 (Dec 1982)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251288.

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Carvill, Robert Lee, Mary Baumgartner, R. W. Bruinsma, and Andy den Otter. "Perspective vol. 5 no. 5 (Nov 1971)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251227.

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Wolters, Albert M., Hendrik Hart, Nancy Pearcey, Robert E. VanderVennen, Rick Pearcey, and Kathy Vanderkloet. "Perspective vol. 18 no. 3 (Jun 1984)." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/251279.

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Vietri, Christopher Daniel. "The journey to God through the spirituality of Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1690.

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This study sets out to determine whether Teresa of Ávila's spirituality, especially her treatise, The Interior Castle, can still provide an appropriate guide for the journey to God in the world of the 21st century. This remarkable book offers a particularly unique contribution to Christian literature. To accomplish this goal, a study of the nature of Christian Spirituality is undertaken, followed by a brief history of Christian spirituality. This provides a backdrop for an examination of the historical setting against which the Interior Castle was written. The study then explores the seven mansions of the Interior Castle to gain an understanding of the journey to God and examines some of the most important and recurring themes in the book. The stages and forms of prayer which are central to the Interior Castle are discussed and the mystical experiences of the 'dark night of the spirit' and union with God are analysed. Lastly, the findings are evaluated to ascertain whether Teresa's writings are still relevant in this contemporary era for those embarking upon the journey towards God.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Van, der Merwe Hester Maria M. Th. "Pastorale behoeftes en ervarings van Afrikaanssprekende gelowiges binne die Gereformeerde tradisie wat betrokke raak by kontemplatiewe spiritualiteit." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3049.

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In this qualitative research study the landscape of the age-old tradition of contemplative spirituality within the context of the reformed tradition was investigated. An empirical study was done to determine the pastoral needs and experiences of Afrikaans speaking believers from the reformed tradition, involved in contemplative spirituality. Questionnaires and qualitative interviews were used for this purpose. The research path has been further shaped by social construction theory as a postmodern approach. This study was born out of my own discovery of the healing qualities of contemplative spirituality and secondly due to the growing demand among Afrikaans speaking reformed believers for exposure to the disciplines of contemplative spirituality. Little research is available on this topic and is it the hope of this research to open new conversations about contemplative spirituality in the Afrikaans reformed tradition.
Practical Theology
M. Th. (Praktiese Teologie)
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