Who Said That?

"The writings of Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), especially `Rules for the Discernment of Spirits' contained in his Spiritual Exercises, exhibit a care, a depth of insight, and a profundity of guidance about the inner life that is completely off the radar screen among contemporary Evangelicals. We neglect this literature at the cost of our own impoverishment."

Leave your guess in the comments section.  Please, no google searches or cheating.  The whole point is to make a guess!

Update on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 11:18AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This glowing endorsement of the work of the arch-enemy of the Protestant Reformation (Ignatius Loyola) comes from Biola professor, J. P. Moreland.  It can be found on page 156 of his book Kingdom Triangle.

Comments

[dsanger]

"Living Spiritual Teacher" Richard Foster

["lee n. field"]

Evangelicals ignore Loyola --- at their peril. My best friend from college, solid Baptist preachers kid, "fell in among Jesuits" in the Army, and joined the Church of Rome. His arguments post conversion are mostly based on authority.

Who said this? Sounds like a modern. Some one of the new evangelical synergistic spiritual dilettantes.

Which one? Dunno. I've got enough reading to do without looking at their stuff.

[Leon Cunningham]

Some new age "spiritual formation" guru. Take your pick!

[RubeRad]

Joel Osteen?

[Coyle]

Sounds like an Evangelical in the CET crowd, maybe even J.I. Packer?
Certainly if you're going to read something Catholic, you could do much worse than Ignatius Loyola (Louis de Montfort, for one). But that might just be four years at Catholic University talking...

[John Yeazel]

This is the not so new "new super-spirituality" that Francis Schaeffer talked about in the 70's and 80's. Anything that turns us inward should warn us right away- isn't it ironic that they call it "discernment of spirits?" We are easily swayed if we do not have the protection of our historical creeds and catechisms of the faith. Some very smart people buy into this stuff- this never ceases to amaze me.

How about Brian McLaren or one of the leading emergents.

[Les Bollinger]

The Internet Monk

[Zrim]

Rube,

Joel is a legalist and is not allowed to use the word "impoverishment," nor properly contemplate the inner life, nor use words with more than two syllables. Something tells me we can rule him out.

[John Yeazel]

Come on Zrim- cut the sarcasm- don't you know that that is unappealing and negative.

[Barks]

Richard Foster

[James]

Don Whitney

[Dave B.]

Dallas Willard

[reg]

Sounds like Richard Foster.

[aaron]

richard foster

[Patrick]

Francis Beckwith? I have no idea, really, but he was a big conversion story. He might say something like this.

[Alberto]

Perhaps it's J.P. Moreland. I don't know much about Willard, but it could be him. Couldn't it be any of a few professors at Biola?

[Neal P.]

Richard Foster

[Phil B]

I was given a Richard Foster book as a gift.

It is currently unread. Should it stay that way?

[VJ]

I would use it(the Richard Foster book) for a bonfire! Or simply throw it in the trash.

[Philip Walker]

Sounds Foster-ish. I remember flicking through Celebration of Discipline, and thinking it was all rather silly. That was before I'd even heard of the word Pietism.