{"id":3092,"date":"2008-01-11T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T00:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2008\/01\/friday-is-for-friends-72.html"},"modified":"2008-01-11T00:30:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T00:30:52","slug":"friday-is-for-friends-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2008\/01\/friday-is-for-friends-72.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday is for Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot count the number of times I have, in reading someone or listening to someone, thought to myself: that is a spirituality that is closer to gnosticism than it is to the biblical faith. That is one reason I like Edith Humphrey&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEcstasy-Intimacy-Spirit-Meets-Human%2Fdp%2F0802831478%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1199412819%26sr%3D1-1&amp;tag=jescre-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Ecstasy and Intimacy<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jescre-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0px !important\" \/><\/em>. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nHow incarnational is your spirituality? Do you struggle to see concrete, embodied deeds and behaviors as spiritual? Or, do you tend to see &#8220;mystical&#8221; and &#8220;spiritual&#8221; as private, intense, inner experiences? Where are you seeing a growing gnosticism (or dualism)?<br \/>\nHumphrey reminds us that the earliest understanding of &#8220;mystical&#8221; was to a &#8220;reality concealed by surface appearances but &#8230; potentially manifest to all Christians&#8221; (13) and more often than not found in communion with others. Hence, Eucharist, the Story of God&#8217;s people, and Scripture form spirituality.<br \/>\nThe operative expression for this chp, one I think Edith could have used more often, can be found in the bold faced words: &#8220;Christian spirituality is the study and experience of what happens when the Holy Spirit meets the human spirit&#8221; and &#8220;that meeting-place between spirit and Spirit, that <strong>holy tryst<\/strong>, finds its example <em>par excellence<\/em> &#8212; indeed, its prototype and its cause &#8212; in Jesus, the God-Man&#8221; (17).<br \/>\nGenuine Christian spirituality is Incarnation and therefore incarnational. Her words: &#8220;Out of God&#8217;s ecstasy comes divine-human intimacy&#8221; (19).<br \/>\nEdith provides a nice NT summary of the Deity of Son and Spirit and then explores the interconnectedness of Spirit with spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot count the number of times I have, in reading someone or listening to someone, thought to myself: that is a spirituality that is closer to gnosticism than it is to the biblical faith. 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