Eugene Peterson is a devotee of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism spewed by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard as their spurious Spiritual Formation.

At this point it’s very important for you to understand that this CSM, and its “Christian” form of transcendental meditation called Contemplative/Centering Prayer, originally flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism.

In fact, this CSM would eventually lead to the teaching magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church declaring that only it alone could truly understand the Bible. So it really shouldn’t come as a shock to us when in his ode to Lectio Divina from his Eat This Book Eugene Peterson starts leading people right back toward that same spiritual dead end of religious bondage:

Lectio Divina is a way of reading the Scriptures that is congruent with the way the Scriptures serve the Christian community as a witness to God’s revelation of himself to us. It is the wise guidance developed through the centuries of devout Bible reading to discipline us, the readers of Scripture, into appropriate ways of understanding and receiving this text so that it is formative for the way we live our lives, not merely making an impression on our minds or feelings.

It intends the reading of Scripture to be a permeation of our lives by the revelation of God. Reading the Bible, if we do not do it rightly, can get us into a lot of trouble. The Christian community is as concerned with how we read the Bible as that we read it. It is not sufficient to place a Bible in a person’s hands with the command, “Read it.” (81)

HT: My Word Like Fire

See also:

EUGENE PETERSON: DEVIL’S FINEST WORK IS GETTING PEOPLE TO STUDY THE BIBLE

SPURIOUS SPIRITUAL FORMATION USHERS IN DECEPTION 

EVANGELICALISM REJECTING SOLA SCRIPUTRA IN LUST FOR NEO-GNOSTIC EXPERIENCE

MOVE OVER PASTORS FOR SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS/GURUS

RICHARD FOSTER’S LEGACY ENDURES: CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELP TO MAKE IT SO

JOHN MACARTHUR: EXISTENTIAL NEO-ORTHODOXY DENIES SOLA SCRIPTURA

HENRY BLACKABY AND HIS SON’S VIEW OF GOD’S WILL NEGATES SOLA SCRIPTURA