Spiritual Disciplines Notes

All of this first part is cyclical, not linear. It is a map, not reality, it is guidance.

The Spiritual Journey

• Childhood Religion
• Petition
• Power
• Pleasure
• Pain

• Adolescent Religion
• Emotion
• ntellectual control of God
• Peer Pressure

• Awakening
• The Reality of the Intangible
• Sense of Call

Via Triplex (4th-6th Centuries)

• Purgation
• Learning the virtues, shunning the vices

• Illumination
• Maturing, little concession to sin.
• Moral Integration
• Great energy for God.
• Love of Christ

• Union (with God)
• In a constant state of sanctification.
• John of the Cross – Dark Night of the Soul

Protestant Language – Being conformed to the image of God.

Luther tipped the Via Triplex on it’s head. First comes Union, then Illumination, then Purgation.

The Geography (or vocabularly) of Pilgrimage

• Traditional Protestantism
• Baptism/Confirmation/Worship & Service
• Evangelicals
• Conversion/Discipling/(Possibly a Second Blessing)/Servanthood
• Pentecostalism
• Saved/Sanctified/Filled with the Spirit
• Reformed
• Justification/A Life of Process Sanctification/Glorification
• Orthodox
• Justification/Sanctification/Deification
• Roman Catholic/Classical Spirituality (4th-6th Centuries)
• Purgation/Illumination/Union (what was up above)