Category Archives: Webber

Part three of The Divine Embrace is entitled “The Challenge: Returning Spirituality to the Divine Embrace,” which is an excellent encapsulation of Webber’s point: we don’t need to find anything new, we simply need to recapture the church’s original understanding … Continue reading →

In the opening paragraph to Chapter 4 of Robert Webber’s book, The Divine Embrace, Webber writes: Spirituality has become situated in the narrative of the self. In this privatized spirituality evangelicals look to themselves for the confirmation of their spiritual … Continue reading →

Lately I’ve been writing about Robert Webber’s final book, The Divine Embrace, which has been really helpful in putting together the thoughts that I’ve already been having about the state of American Evangelicalism. It’s really been a breath of fresh … Continue reading →

The second shift away from ancient spirituality resulted from the romantic movement and influenced spirituality toward a preoccupation with experience. –Webber, page 89 The Enlightenment (or so it has been called) resulted in a shift toward an intellectual, reasoned approach … Continue reading →