Meditative Prayer

A 32-page booklet by Richard J. Foster published in 1983 in InterVarsity Press's IVP Booklets series, with a London printing by MARC Europe the same year. It is a brief introduction to meditative prayer, which Foster had treated as the first of the inward disciplines in Celebration of Discipline (1978); the publisher's listing gives its subjects as the biblical basis of meditative prayer, its purpose, the sanctifying of the imagination, practical steps into the practice and a set of practical problems a beginner meets. The same subject returns at book length in Sanctuary of the Soul: Journey into Meditative Prayer (2011), also published by InterVarsity Press. The booklet's text was not examined in this pass.