Inter-Religious Spirituality and the Contemplative Renaissance: How Other Faiths Helped Christians Rediscover Our Spiritual Heart

Christianity has a long history of contemplative practice.

But many scholars and spiritual teachers within the faith recognize that in the centuries immediately preceding and following the Reformation, the church (at least in the west) largely lost its contemplative heart.

Theologian Robert Davis Hughes III addressed this topic in his book Beloved Dust. H…