Spiritual Formation and the Reformation: Comer, Willard, Calvin
Michael Horton
17.45
24 March 2026
1 April 2026
Is spiritual formation that moves beyond the practices of the Reformation what we need to help with our disillusionment with evangelicalism? Michael Horton discusses the contemporary spiritual formation movement most notably associated with John Mark Comer and heavily influenced by the late Dallas Willard, and compares its emphases to the hallmarks of Reformation piety.
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0:00 Fourth Wave Evangelicalism?
0:55 Reformation Piety
4:40 Medieval Sources of Evangelical Spirituality
7:55 Union, Not Just Imitation
12:08 False Dichotomies around Spiritual Formation
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