The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning

by Aaron Niequist

Ebook, 2018

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A call for Christians to move past the shallows of idealized beliefs and into a deeper, more vibrant, beatitude-like faith rooted in sacred practices and intimate experiences with God. When the limits of his own faith experience left him feeling spiritually empty, Niequist determined God must have a wider vision for worship and community. In his search, Aaron discovered that there was historical Christian precedent for enacting faith in a different way, an ancient and now future way of believing. He calls this third way "practice-based faith." This book is about loving one's faith tradition and, at the same time, following the call to something deeper and richer. By adopting some new spiritual practices, it is possible to learn to swim again with a renewed sense of vigor and divine purpose.… (more)

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WaterBrook (2018), 200 pages

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LibraryThing member nicholasjjordan
In the tradition of Robert Webber, Niequist has found ancient Christian faith practice as an evangelical, and he wants to introduce others. It might be a good resource to introduce this type of faith to his fellow evangelicals (using solidly evangelical touchstones such as Dallas Willard, Eugene
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Peterson, and James K.A. Smith), but it’s frustrating that aside from Brother Lawrence and the use of the Ignatian examen (but really nothing on Ignatius), no one from before 1970 seems to make the cut as a voice on these things. Alongside the evangelical luminaries are current progressive Protestant lights too (not all of them Protestant)—Ian Morgan Cron, Richard Rohr, Barbara Brown Taylor, Phileena Heuertz—but these too are obviously very recent voices.
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