Shaped by the Word: The Power of Scripture in Spiritual Formation

by M. Robert Mulholland

Overview

This book explores the role that scripture plays in spiritual formation.



Mulholland examines obstacles often encountered in spiritual reading and introduces a new approach to reading that will enliven the scriptures. He also compares informational reading (reading to be informed) with formational reading (reading to be spiritually formed). Readers are released to God’s initiative, allowing the scripture to form a spiritual life inside themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780835809368
Publisher:	Upper Room Books
Publication date:	02/28/2001
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	171,176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

M. Robert Mulholland Jr. is provost and V.P. of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, KY

Table of Contents

	Foreword	9
	Preface	11
I.	Introduction
1.	Getting Oriented	15
2.	How to "Read" without "Reading"	19
3.	The Nature of Spiritual Formation	25
II.	Focal Perceptual Shifts
4.	Various Words of God	33
5.	Information Versus Formation	49
6.	The Iconographic Nature of Scripture	65
7.	Kairotic Existence	73
III.	Focal Experiential Shifts
8.	Functional-Relational Factors	85
9.	Being and Doing	97
IV.	The Power of Scripture in Spiritual Formation
10.	Breaking the Crust	111
11.	Wesley's Guidelines for Reading Scripture	123
12.	Obstacles to Spiritual Reading	133
13.	The Practice of Spiritual Reading	143
Appendix A	Spiritual Formation and Psychology	165
Appendix B	Excerpt from the Preface to Wesley's Notes on the Old Testament	171
	Notes	173