The Art of Spiritual Guidance

I am not going to do a full post on this. After a full day of class discussing this, I appreciated it a bit more. But while there was good here and while I, even on my own, appreciated parts, this isn't a book on spiritual direction I would highly recommend. There are too many books that are good for me to recommend one that I had issues with.

The main issues: 1) I am resistant to how some want to universalize Christian spiritual direction. Other religious traditions can do something similar to SD and I am all for that. But as a Christian that is trying to train to become an SD, I don't really want a broad approach, I want a narrow one that assumes Christianity and assumes the work of the Holy Spirit as the primary driver. 2) I was irritated by the interaction with culture and modernism/postmodernism. She was not simply taking a modernist approach and opposing post-modernism or vice versa, but to me, it felt like she was on the wrong side of several different issues. 3) I understand the difficulty of using mystical language and the problems of describing the mystery of God. But I also think that there is a lot of unnecessary confusion added with sloppy language. 4) I also discovered through my class that she was using some language based on one of her mentors that I just wasn't familiar with. So I probably was reacting too strongly against her at times.

I probably should read it again. But not soon.