Developing an Anthropological Foundation for the Spiritual Disciplines

Before my mentor, Dallas Willard, passed over to glory, I asked him what he thought about the rapid rise of the Christian spiritual formation movement. He said, “It is a wonderful thing, but my fear is the Christian spiritual movement will continue to grow so rapidly that the difficult work of establishing an anthropological foundation will not happen.” 

By “anthropological foundation,” Dallas was referring to a clear sense of the nature of the human person. I asked, “Without an anthropological foundation, what will happen as a result?” Dallas said, “The spiritual formation movement…