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The central thesis of this book is that Baptists should recover the contemplative tradition with which they began in the early seventeenth century and to teach others how to live contemplatively in an age and culture far removed from contemplation. Through our four centuries, especially in America, cultural experience has reshaped and is reshaping our spirituality and worship in ways whereby God ends up as the one we expect to serve our programs and whims rather than the one we serve.

It is the Christian conviction that God, in some mysterious way, poured himself into the life of Jesus of Nazareth in order to communicate himself, his purpose, without distortion. The mystery is that He did so without also relinquishing his ubiquity, his everywhereness. God's Word was incarnated in the life of Jesus. The resurrection of Jesus, seen as a divine seal of approval on his life and death, is Christianity's source of origin. - Introduction.