For Further
Reading
The following materials are suggested to help you increase your understanding of Spiritual Formation, and more importantly, to help you grow in your faith. Readings are categorized under basic headings having to do with our formation. Most of the books are in print at the time of this compilation. The few which are not can be obtained from most college and seminary libraries in your area. In addition to these resources, please use the footnotes as a further means of exploring the various topics developed in this book.
General Readings
1. Leslie Weatherhead, The Transforming Friendship
2. Steve Harper, Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition
3. Maxie Dunnam, Alive in Christ
4. E. Stanley Jones, The Way
5. Henri Nouwen, Making All Things New
6. Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life
7. Alan Jones & Rachel Homer, Living in the Spirit
8. Iris Cully, Education for Spiritual Growth
9. Benedict Groeschel, Spiritual Passages
Scripture
1. Robert Mulholland, Shaped by the Word
2. David Thompson, Bible Study That Works
3. Susan Muto, A Guide to Spiritual Reading
4. Thomas Merton, Opening the Bible
5. H.A. Nielsen, The Bible As If for the First Time
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Prayer
1. Harry E. Fosdick, The Meaning of Prayer
2. Dick Eastman, The Hour That Changes the World
3. Kenneth Leech, True Prayer
4. Anthony Bloom, Beginning to Pray
5. Maxie Dunnam, The Workbook of Living Prayer
6. O. Hallesby, Prayer
The Lord's Supper
1. William Willimon, Sunday Dinner
2. William Barclay, The Lord' Supper
3. Martin Marty, The Lord's Supper
Fasting
1. Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
(helpful chapter)
2. Tilden Edwards, Living Simply Through the Day
(helpful chapter)
Direction/Accountability
1. David Watson, Accountable Discipleship
2. Tilden Edwards, Spiritual Friend
3. Kenneth Leech, Soul Friend
4. Robert Coleman, The Master Plan of Evangelism
Personality and Spiritual Development
1. David Keirsey, Please Understand Me
2. Harold Grant, From Image to Likeness
3. Christopher Bryant, The River Within
4. Chester Michael, Prayer and Temperament
The Holy Spirit
1. Billy Graham, The Holy Spirit
2. Kenneth Kinghorn, The Gifts of the Spirit
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3. Myron Augsburger, Quench Not the Spirit
Discipline and Disciplines
1. Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
2. Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World
3. Albert E. Day, Discipline and Discovery*
4. James Earl Massey, Spiritual Disciplines
5. Maxie Dunnam, The Workbook of Spiritual Disciplines
History of Christian Spirituality
1. Urban Holmes, A History of Christian Spirituality
2. Alan Jones & Rachel Hosmer, Living in the Spirit
(helpful chapter)
Devotional Classics (Introduction to)
1. Tilden Edwards, The Living Testament: The Essential Writings Since the New Testament
2. Thomas Kepler, An Anthology of Devotional Literature
3. The Upper Room Devotional Classics
4. Paulist Press Series, The Classics of Western Spirituality
Social Spirituality
1. John Carmody, Holistic Spirituality
2. William Stringfellow, The Politics of Spirituality
3. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
4. Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion
(helpful chapter)
5. Henri Nouwen, Gracias
6. Henri Nouwen, Compassion
Ministry and Spiritual Formation
1. Edward Bratcher, The Walk-on-Water Syndrome
2. Henri Nouwen, The Living Reminder
3. Louis McBirney, Every Pastor Needs a Pastor
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4. Henri Nouwen, Creative Ministry
5. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership
Devotional Guides and Prayer Books
1. Reuben Job, The Upper Room Guide to Prayer for Ministers and Other Servants
2. Bob Benson, Disciplines for the Inner Life
3. John Braille, A Diary of Private Prayer
4. Charles Swindoll, Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
5. John Doberstein, The Minister's Prayer Book
6. The Book of Common Prayer
