5/20/2023 0 Comments The pursuit of god aw tozer review![]() He wrote two best-selling books about God – The Pursuit of God (penned overnight on a Pullman train journey) and The Knowledge of the Holy, which have been translated into many languages. This self-taught Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor became a supreme wordsmith, and read widely in theology, history, philosophy, poetry, and literature. People like Bernard of Clairvaux or Fenelon or with the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing.Ī W Tozer is about the best example of a well-educated Christian ‘auto-didact’ I know. Now only hard-core vangelicals/ Fundamentalists have any problem with the spirituality of ![]() ![]() In America ex-farm-boy A.W.Tozer (who had one day’s – yes – high school education and no seminary training) fell in love with the mystics and imparted their wisdom to his sometimes perplexed Evangelical compatriots (who wondered: can anything good come out of Catholic spirituality before or after the Protestant Reformation?).įast forward a couple of decades: in the late 1970s four authors triggered an avalanche of books, articles and seminary courses on this broad subject: Richard Foster (Quaker), Tilden Edwards and Morton Kelsey (Episcopalian) and Anglican Kenneth Leech. Sangster – a Methodist – wrote Masters’ and PhD dissertions on ‘holiness’ and Christian sanctity. ![]() On one side of the Atlantic Britain’s Dr. There were two significant 20th century Evangelical pastors who taught about ‘spiritual theology’ from the classical saints and mystics. ![]()
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