Halfway down the front page of the website of CANADIAN CHRISTIANITY (www.canadianchristianity.com) is the following promotional for KOINOS online lectures:
KOINOS online lectures – A certificate in Christian Foundations
This 10 seminar program is taught by a world-class faculty, and covers ten fundamental subjects. Each seminar (5 lectures) will be released monthly as they are delivered.
(Link: http://www.canadianchristianity.com/koinos/index.html)
One of the listening options is an online listening seminar by Susan Philips.
CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY 101
Susan PhillipsAbout this seminar »
An introduction to the biblical and historical roots of Christian spirituality, the spiritual disciplines, spiritual direction, and the pursuit of personal and corporate holiness.Susan Phillips, BA, PHD, is Executive Director and Professor of Sociology and Christianity at New College Berkeley and teaches in the area of Christian spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Regent College. She is co-editor of The Crisis of Care: Affirming and Restoring Caring Practices in the Helping Professions and author of Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction.
-http://www.canadianchristianity.com/koinos/mp3-download/8/susan-phillips/christian-spirituality-101.html
Susan S. Phillips Ph.D. (www.susansphillips.com) is a spiritual director who regularly teaches for New College Berkeley, Regent College (Canada), Fuller Theological Seminary, and the Diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction program at San Francisco Theological Seminary. She also serves on the editorial review board of Presence magazine, the journal of Spiritual Directors International (www.sdiworld.org/presence_journal.html).
Phillips is also the author of Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction (Spiritual Directors International).
What is Spiritual Directors International? Lighthouse Trails Research tells us:
Spiritual Directors International (SDI) is an interspiritual “learning community committed to advancing spiritual direction around the world” with a membership that “consists of people from many nations and many faiths.” According to SDI, spiritual direction is “the contemplative practice of helping another person or group to awaken to the mystery called God in all of life,” and they respond “to this call by tending the holy around the world and across traditions. Ray Yungen discusses SDI in A Time of Departing:
To underscore the scope and reach of the contemplative prayer movement let’s look at the numbers put out by an organization called Spiritual Directors International (SDI). On their website this group gives ample evidence of what their practices are. In one national conference, the following was presented: This workshop offers an opportunity to study and experience the director’s role in a person’s move into the beginning and early stages of contemplative prayer, silence, and openness to new sorts of praying. One of the objectives of SDI is “Tending the holy around the world and across traditions.”
See more here:
Spiritual Direction
http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/spiritualdirection.htm
By their promotion of these lectures, Canadian Christianity may possibly be helping to direct unwary evangelical Christians slowly and silently across the bridge over the muddy waters of contemplative spiritual formation to accept the doctrines of the church on the other side – the Roman Catholic church.
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See who else is crossing the Koinos bridge to contemplative spirituality.
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