Over at Bible Study Notes we see an in-depth look at some of the teachings of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which begins:

Richard Foster’s writings have been at the forefront of the contemplative movement since the 1970s. No one has done more than this man to spread contemplative mysticism throughout Protestant and Baptist churches.

Foster’s book Celebration of Discipline, which has sold more than two and a half million copies, was selected by Christianity Today as one of the top ten books of the 20th century. (For this review I obtained multiple editions of Celebration of Discipline, plus three other books by Foster.)

The Quaker Connection

He grew up among the Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends), was trained at George Fox College, has pastored Quaker churches, and has taught theology at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, and at George Fox. One website calls him “perhaps the best known Quaker in the world today”…  (Online source)

You can read this post, an excerpt from the “new book Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful Ecumenical Bond, which is available from Way of Life Literature,” here.

See also:

WHO IS RICHARD FOSTER?

THE CULT OF GURU RICHARD FOSTER

DELUSIONS OF DALLAS WILLARD

DOES PSALM 46:10 TEACH CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER?

ORIGIN OF CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER