Meditation and Communion with God: Contemplating Scripture in an Age of Distraction
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Overview
As culture has become at once more secular and more religiously pluralistic, a renaissance of interest in the spiritual disciplines has been sparked in evangelical Protestant circles. Mounting levels of stress, burnout and spiritual dryness among those in ministry has only stoked this desire for spiritual nourishment and renewal.
John Jefferson Davis helps us recover the practice of meditation on Scripture as he explores the biblical and theological foundations rooted in the arrival of “the age to come” in Jesus Christ. Indeed by virtue of our union with Christ, the Triune God of the Bible draws near to his people so that they may also draw near to him.
Meditation on God’s revelation has always been central to enjoying communion with the Father through the Son and in the Spirit. Davis gives us fresh and practical guidance on removing the obstacles that block our fellowship with God and listening to Scripture in ways that can enrich our worship, faith, hope and love.
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- Helps readers recover the practice of meditation on Scripture
- Explores the biblical and theological foundations for the spiritual practice of meditation
- Provides fresh and practical guidance on removing the obstacles that block our fellowship with God
- Introduction: Reality in Mediation
- Reading Scripture Today: Communion with God in an Age of Distraction
- The Arrival of the Age to Come: New Intimacy with God
- Excursus: How Personal Agents are Located in Space: Extended Selves and Union with Christ
- Inaugurated Ontology: A Biblical Worldview for Meditation
- A New Way of Knowing God and Reading the Bible: Seeing Into Heaven Now
- The Hermeneutics of the Age to Come: Inaugurated Eschatology and Recovering the Ancient Fourfold Sense of Scripture
- Experiencing Communion with God in Biblical Meditation: From Theology to Practice
- Excursus: Centering Prayer, the Jesus Prayer, Focusing Prayer
Davis’s passionate conviction that biblical meditation is an antidote to the bewildering busyness and fragmentation of twenty-first-century life shines through in this engaging, incisive work. Integrating theology and cutting-edge neuroscientific discovery, Davis creatively adapts meditative methods of the past for evangelicals in an age of tehnology, teaching us practical ways to grow deeply through our encounters with God's Word.
Gwenfair Walters Adams, Ph.D., associate professor of church history, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Finally, a book about meditation on Scripture that is theologically rich, built on the great Christian tradition, attuned to the contemporary scene and practically helpful! Jack Davis has provided a needed service to the church, one that will be spiritually refreshing to pastors, missionaries, teachers and laypeople alike. I for one was deeply challenged and encouraged by this fine book. I highly recommend it.
Steve Roy, professor, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, author, What God Thinks When We Fail
In Meditation and Communion, John Jefferson Davis brings decades of reflection on the current malaise of the Western church to bear in this insightful and well-organized book. This is a wise and provocative book that revisits one of the most basic Christian acts--namely, the reading of Holy Scripture. Davis prophetically bridges the boundaries between descriptive analysis and constructive imagination. In the process, he returns to the church the gift of meditation, a word which for over a century has become identified mostly with non-Christian religions. If his challenge is taken seriously, we will never again read Scripture without an increasing sense of the presence of the risen Christ in our midst.
—Timothy C. Tennent, professor of world Christianity and president of Asbury Theological Seminary
- Title: Meditation and Communion with God: Contemplating Scripture in an Age of Distraction
- Author: John Jefferson Davis
- Publisher: IVP USA
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Pages: 169
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780830839766, 0830839763
- Resource ID: LLS:9780830863389
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-15T02:27:04Z
John Jefferson Davis is professor of systematic theology and Christian ethics at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 1975. He has published for many years in both theological and scientific journals. He is the author of Worship and the Reality of God.