Notes

p. 99 living with “appreciative abandonment”: Adrian van Kaam, The Power of Appreciation (Pittsburgh: Epiphany Association, 1993), 1.

p. 100 Many people reach only incidentally: Van Kaam, Fundamental Formation, 155-56.

p. 100 May you come to accept: John O’Donohue, “For Longing,” in To Bless the Space Between Us (New York: Doubleday, 2008), 35-36.

p. 101 The first fruit of love: Thomas Watson, All Things for Good (1663; Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1986), 74.

p. 103 An ordered way of acting: Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1978), 166.

p. 103 Prepare for Sunday worship: Foster, Celebration, 171.

p. 107 Bob George radio ministry: Bob George Ministries, https://bobgeorge.net/.

p. 115 Wonderous exchange: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1960), 4.17.2. This phrase, “wondrous exchange,” is also in The Epistle to Diognetus 9, who was one of the Apostolic Fathers in the second century. So the term has a long history.

p. 115 Endured it with joy: Thomas F. Torrance, Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2009), 152, italics added.

p. 115 While he [Luther] was describing the change: John Wesley, The Works of John Wesley, vol. 18, Journals and Diaries (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1988) entry from May 24, 1738, italics added.

p. 117 We can stop focusing on sin: Bob George, Classic Christianity (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1989), 58.

p. 117 My sin—oh, the bliss: Horatio Spafford, “It Is Well with My Soul,” verse 3, 1873, www.spaffordhymn.com.

p. 118 Classic novel Pilgrim’s Progress: John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), sec. 3.

p. 124 as Dallas Willard taught: Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 41.

p. 128 Those who restore art: Christopher Jobson, “The Meticulous 10-Month Restoration of a 355-Year-Old Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Colossal, June 30, 2015, www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/06/brun-painting-restoration-met/.

p. 131 When we come to understand: Leanne Payne, Restoring the Christian Soul: Overcoming Barriers to Completion in Christ Through Healing Prayer (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2001), xiii.

p. 131 The characteristic of the new birth: Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 2018), December 25 entry.

p. 131 I would rather laugh: Billy Joel, “Only the Good Die Young,” The Stranger (Columbia Records, 1977), track 6.

p. 132 The One who came: Dallas Willard, Spirit of the Disciplines (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), 79.

p. 132 The greatest sin: “New Bishop Willimon Displays Puckish Style: Hauerwas: ‘It’s a Sign We’re Not Dead Yet,’” Christian Century, August 24, 2001, www.christiancentury.org/article/2004-08/new-bishop-willimon-displays-puckish-style.

p. 136 Like the play of sunlight: Mike Mason, Champagne for the Soul: Rediscovering God’s Gift of Joy (Vancouver: Regent College Publishers, 2007), 69.

p. 137 Just So Stories: Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories for Little Children (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1902).

p. 137 The manna of joy: Mason, Champagne for the Soul, 69.

p. 142 When I was in seminary: Søren Kierkegaard, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing (Merchant Books, 2013).

p. 144 Paul’s Corinthian correspondence: Don J. Payne, Already Sanctified (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2020), 57.

p. 146 Accomplished holiness: Payne, Already Sanctified, 70.

p. 146 The Christian is not just called: Douglas J. Moo, Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2015), 403. Also quoted in Payne, Already Sanctified, 130.

p. 150 The imperative is not only: Fleming Rutledge, Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017), 558. Also quoted in Payne, Already Sanctified, 62.

p. 151 To live in contradiction: Payne, Already Sanctified, 129.

p. 152 Original source of paranoid fears: Adrian van Kaam, Formative Spirituality, vol. 6, Transcendent Formation (New York: Crossroad, 1995), 249.

p. 152 The grace of God always kills: Ray Sherman Anderson, The Soul of Ministry: Forming Leaders for God’s People (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997), 47. Also Payne, Already Sanctified, 126.

p. 152 The grace of rescue: Rebecca Letterman and Susan Muto, Understanding Our Story: The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017), 47.

p. 152 Attaining a sense of self-worth: Susan Annette Muto and Adrian van Kaam, Tell Me Who I Am (Denville, NJ: Dimension Books, 1977), 35.

p. 153 Grace is not opposed to effort: Dallas Willard, The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship (New York: HarperOne, 2007), 61.

p. 153 Love loves unto purity: George MacDonald, “The Consuming Fire,” sermon from Unspoken Sermons, First Series (Eureka, CA: Sunrise Books Publishers, 1988), 27.

p. 155 Here and now is where we must listen: Adrian van Kaam, “Say Yes Always,” no. 4, Becoming Spiritually Mature, Epiphany Video Series (Pittsburgh: Epiphany Association, 2007).

p. 161 Each of us is conceived: Rebecca Letterman and Susan Muto, Understanding Our Story: The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2017), 27.

p. 162 Circle of origin: Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002), 180.

p. 162 Sociohistorical dimension: This is a term used by Fr. Adrian van Kaam. It is explained in the book and video series Becoming Spiritually Mature (Pittsburgh: Epiphany Association, 2007).

p. 162 It plays a markedly formative role: Letterman and Muto, Understanding Our Story, 26.

p. 162 They who passed away long ago: Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), 86.

p. 163 Our circle of origin: Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 36.

p. 163 Someone is for us: Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 179.

p. 163 When you are dejected: John of Kronstadt is credited with this quote, but the source is unknown.

p. 163 We assault others: Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 182.

p. 166 A British documentary: Michael Apted, dir., 56 Up (London: ITV Studios, 2012).

p. 166 We are the beneficiaries: David Brooks, from a talk he gave at the Leadership Conference held by the Murdock Trust, Dec. 3, 2020.

p. 167 It is a lifelong task: Adrian van Kaam, Fundamental Formation (New York: Crossroad, 1983), 94-95.

p. 167 In his book A Grace Disguised: Gerald Sittser, A Grace Disguised (Nashville, TN: Zondervan, 2004), 45.

p. 169 Form a massive matrix: Letterman and Muto, Understanding Our Story, 27.

p. 169 Love comes to us from God: Willard, Renovation of the Heart, 183.

p. 171 The reversal of traumas: Adrian van Kaam, Foundations of Christian Formation (Pittsburgh: Epiphany Association, 2004), 42.

p. 172 When we have the courage: Brené Brown, Dare to Lead (New York: Random House, 2018), 240.

p. 173 We believe something: Willard, Renovation of the Heart.

p. 173 You construct your understanding: Curt Thompson, Anatomy of the Soul (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2010), 77.

p. 185 Be who God meant you to be: Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters, ed. Vida Dutton Scudder (London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905), “Letter to Stefano Maconi” (1376).

p. 186 The best advice I can give: This quote from Frederick Buechner, as I wrote it in my notebook, was something he said often and wrote about. In fact, a later devotional that consists of his writings is titled Listening to Your Life (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992).

p. 187 By and large a good rule: Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 95.

p. 188 My father had not attached: Ray Anderson, Unspoken Wisdom: Truths My Father Taught Me (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2013), 18.

p. 193 Within you is a fathomless reservoir: Dick Staub, About You: Fully Human, Fully Alive (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010), 184.

p. 193 Fun exercise where we notice: Jim Banks, One Calling, One Ministry (Campbellsville, KY: House of Healing Ministries, 2012), Kindle loc. 1099.

p. 193 What we really want to do: Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way (New York: TarcherPerigee, 1992), 108.

p. 195 God’s creative call is revealed: Adrian van Kaam, In Search of Spiritual Identity (Denville, NJ: Dimension Books, 1975), 143.

p. 199 I don’t believe in Heaven: Scot McKnight, The Heaven Promise (Colorado Springs: WaterBrook, 2015), 144.

p. 200 Jesus abolished death: Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1998), 84.

p. 201 When You’re old enough to speak: Penny and Sparrow, “Smitten, Pt. 2,”, Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, Wendigo, I Love You, 2017.

p. 202 Reliability of the promise of heaven: McKnight, Heaven Promise, 24.

p. 203 While the knowing of the mind: John O’Donohue, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005), 205-6.

p. 203 For your soul: O’Donohue, Beauty, 208.

p. 204 Glory means good report with God: C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 36.

p. 204 It may be possible: Lewis, Weight of Glory, 39.

p. 209 There is nothing that can replace: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, vol. 8, Works (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009), letter no. 89.

p. 210 Grief is a small penalty: John Pavlovitz, “Grief Is the Tax on Loving People,” John Pavlovitz blog, August 24, 2019, https://johnpavlovitz.com/2019/08/24/grief-is-the-tax-on-loving-people/.

p. 212 Celebration is at the heart: Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1978), 190.

p. 212 God is the most joyous: Willard, Divine Conspiracy, 62.

p. 212 Jubilee of the Spirit: Foster, Celebration, 190.

p. 213 A way of engaging: Adele Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005), 2.