Shaping the Journey

How do the theological impulses of evangelical pietism and contemplative monasticism converge in the modern spiritual formation movement?Shaping the Journey brings John Wesley and Thomas Merton into critical dialogue, examining their distinct yet complementary contributions to Christian spirituality. With Wesleyan evangelicalism as a thesis and Mertonian monasticism as antithesis, this study argues that the spiritual formation movement represents a meaningful synthesis of these traditions. Centr