FCS Mach II, Weekly Journal, Week One.
January 17, 2005
I am ready to get back into the routine of having class, doing the
readings, making sure I visit “Sacred Space” and writing a journal.
As we begin the second part of the course, I need to say that I am
enjoying the Philip Sheldrake book, “Spirituality and Theology.” The
focus on the Doctrine of the Trinity as a solid foundation for any
kind of Christian Spirituality is one that I have sort of had for
years, so I really appreciate the opportunity to really explore it
more.
I have to say that this is another part in my personal journey in this
class from thinking of some amorphous, and non-specific view of
spirituality to one that is more firmly based in Scripture and is
truly a Christian Spirituality. That wasn’t really what I was
expecting from the course. I was just expecting to get some direction
on the task of being a spiritual director. Yet, this is so much better
than what I was expecting and hoping for from the course. I am looking
forward to even more to come.
There is one quote from the book that I want to be sure to pull out so
I remember it more.
In fact, the key to good theology is prayer, understood in its
fullest sense as a relationship with, or contemplation of, the divine
rather than simply devotions and techniques of meditation. Perhaps we
may go further still and say that all true prayer is true theology and
vice versa. For true prayer and true theology are both matters of the
heard and the head. They each point to a unity of love and knowledge
beyond the traditional post-enlightenment division. (p 30-31)
