Christian contemplative spirituality got forgotten for about three hundred years, after Brother Lawrence's famous teachings in the 1600s. The person who brought it back and set the stage for a whole new era of Christian spirituality--and people like Richard Rohr and Thomas Merton--was an unlikely candidate, an upper-middle-class British woman named Evelyn Underhill. Dave Schmelzer starts with a brief overview of this remarkable woman and then interviews Underhill's most accomplished biographer, Dana Greene.


Mentioned on this podcast:

Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life, by Dana Greene

The Spiritual Life, by Evelyn Underhill

Dana Greene's website: danagreene.org

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