Invitation to Solitude and Silence

Experiencing God's Transforming Presence

By Ruth Haley Barton
Foreword by Dallas Willard

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Product Details

Line: Formatio
Length: 144 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: hardcover
Published: January 2004

ISBN-10: 0-8308-2386-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-2386-4
IVP Order Code: 2386

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Spiritual Formation

Author Interview

• Invites you to meet God deeply and fully outside the demands and noise of daily life
• Clearly explains classic spiritual disciplines
• Shows how you can practice--and benefit from--spiritual disciplines
• Combines teaching and reflection with activities and disciplines
• Describes an approach that works for both introverts and extroverts, introspectives and activists
• Offers the prophet Elijah as a guide
• Draws on Barton's own experiences
• Provides biblical grounding
• Written from an evangelical perspective
• Barton is cocreator (with John Ortberg) of the devotional curriculum An Ordinary Day with Jesus
• Winner of a Christianity Today 2005 Book Award (spirituality)